firefox grows, taking over all resources

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:34:55AM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Sounds like a step ahead.  Web browsers seem to be the worst offenders
> these days in the battle to chew up all my swap space.
> 
> Chrome has the small merit that, as each window is managed by a
> separate process, there's *some* hope of tracking offensively bloated
> processes and expunging them without necessarily needing to kill off
> the whole browser.  Unfortunately, it's only worth searching for the
> *worst* bloat, and that only when things start swapping to a
> troublesome degree.

Well firfox 4 supposedly runs each plugin as a seperate process.
That seems to really get flash under control.

The difference in performance of javascript is just amazing though.
gmail and other javascript heavy pages are noticeable faster.
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