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    Post Firefox 7.0 is out

    Get it here: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or.../releases/7.0/

    They promised drastically improved memory management. So I got rid of MemoryFox add-on. Updated to 7.0. The result?
    Every single time I open a tab with a new site, memory consumption goes up (by 50-100MB). I close it - and guess what? It goes down by 0-2MB. I ended up with FF7.0 taking 700MB of RAM with just one tab with XS opened.
    Very disappointing so far.

    Edit: memory usage seems to be going down with time. Takes over a minute to offload a single tab, though. Perhaps that's intended, I don't know. They should definitely accelerate the offloading. MemoryFox (whose creator particpated in FF7.0 [and higher] memory management improvements) still does that a lot faster (and better).
    Last edited by zalbard; 09-26-2011 at 03:48 PM.
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