Die Entwickler von Firefox zur wachsenden Kritik, daß sich FF dermaßen im Speicher breitmacht und damit die Performance des kompletten Rechners herunterzieht (das Problem selbst ist uralt):
A lot of people complain about the Firefox „memory leak(s)“. All versions of Firefox no doubt leak memory – it is a common problem with software this complicated. We look to fix the issues where we can. David Baron and others have done a huge amount of excellent work in this area. What I think many people are talking about however with Firefox 1.5 is not really a memory leak at all. It is in fact a feature.
Jou, sage ich auch immer 🙂 Aber ok, hören wir mal weiter zu:
Firefox 1.5 implements a Back-Forward cache that retains the rendered document for the last five session history entries for each tab. This is a lot of data. If you have a lot of tabs, Firefox’s memory usage can climb dramatically. It’s a trade-off. What you get out of it is faster performance as you navigate the web.
Also, kein Memory-Problem in dem Sinne, sondern ein Caching-Problem, das zu einem Memory-Problem wird.
