[rescue] Mozilla Firefox

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Sun Apr 25 15:48:04 CDT 2004


On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> OK.  I was just thinking of how many times JavaScript/ECMA has had
> memory leaks in the past.
>
> There were certain versions of Netscape back in the day that would leak
> memory just sitting there if you enabled JavaScript.

Gah.  I wonder if we'd just be better off with a pure-Java browser.  If
it used AWT instead of Swing, it'd probably be -faster- than Mozilla.
And, at least we know Java's GC works.

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