Firefox 3.0 Beta: It was Having Hundreds of Memory Leaks Before

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Firefox 3.0’s memory consumption is “dramatically improved,” claimed Mozilla Corp.’s chief engineer Thursday, because developers have aggressively attacked the open-source browser’s notorious memory “leaks.”

“We’ve been working on memory leaks for years,” said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering. “But it really started to come together in the last six months.”

Another milestone, however, might have been three months ago, when a member of the Mozilla board of directors said attention had to be paid to Firefox’s memory allocation if the browser was going to compete in the RAM-tight mobile market.

“We’ve made a lot of progress,” said Schroepfer. “Our memory usage is significantly improved, and dramatically better than Internet Explorer 7.”

But the work’s not finished. “Most of the big memory issues are resolved, and we’re seeing some pretty good numbers on memory consumption, but some additional work is one reason why we felt we needed Beta 4.”

In the run-up to releasing Beta 4, Mozilla acknowledged that it would take the time to do at least one more beta build. According to Schroepfer, Beta 4’s code freeze date — when all work stops in preparation for the build to enter final testing before release — has been set as Feb. 26.

 

source:pcworld 

2 Replies to “Firefox 3.0 Beta: It was Having Hundreds of Memory Leaks Before”

  1. I am more than confident that they will solve this rather big issue. The showed us that they can do an incredible progress in many directions so i think there’s no need to panic.

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