[geeks] I love it when software gets more efficient

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:39:05PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> Now that I've used Firefox and Thunderbird for a couple of years, this
> is what I observe:
> 
> Mozilla Suite used about 120MB total when I last used it in 2004.
> 
> Today I checked Firefox and Thunderbird after they'd been running about
> 10 hours.
> 
> Firefox was using 220MB, and Thunderbird was using 280MB.
> 
> I sure am glad they've been made more efficient... :/
> 
> Does everyone else see numbers like this?  Surely these are memory
> leaks?

I expect Firefox to run for days.  It has been at least running since
Wednesday for me, and it is using 355Megs, with 150 tabs open.  No
plugins other than TabMixPlus and Session Manager.