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Firefox Fixing Memory Problems

Published on the 22nd of September 2007

By Ethan Poole

Mozilla's development community is finally attending to one of the largest, if not the largest, technical problem with the Mozilla Firefox web browser: memory. Over the years, each version of Firefox has used more memory and has leaked more memory due to poor programming. Users find that Firefox runs like molasses if left running overnight or if the user is browsing with a large number of tabs.

Detailed on this blog (external link), the memory fixes should be present in Firefox 3.

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Ethan Poole

Ethan is a Scandinavian Language student at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. He is a PHP developer and the Managing Director of Lowter. Ethan is a crazy fan of the Opera (external link) web browser and he enjoys foreign language.

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