[geeks] Firefox revisisted

[Frank Van Damme]

On 9/16/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> I earlier had said that changes to cache settings in Firefox curbed
> short-term memory consumption, but after a few more days of testing,
> that's not correct.
>
> In fact, it seems to have little effect at all.  Perhaps a bit, but
> certainly not enough.
>
> I hit about 6 sites just now, and in 30 minutes Firefox hit 173MB.
>
> I *did* upgrade to version 1.5.0.7, but according to the changelog this
> version is supposed to have fixed memory leaks rather than add them.
>
> It might still be worthwhile to hold back disk and ram cache settings.
>
> Just curious: anyone else try playing with these settings?  See any
> interesting results good or bad?

Not yet. I will try upgrading firefox on my gf's pc though, since it
takes - after a while, say a few days - INSANE amounts of memory (like
over 100 mb resident).

-- 
Frank Van Damme

"All  PCs are compatible. But some of them are more compatible than
others." [Onbekend]