nice paper on FireFox memory usage reduction

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On 03/19/2012 11:48 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: CLIFFORD ILKAY<clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
> | Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:32:39 -0500
>
> | On 02/04/2012 11:42 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> |>  When I type "about:memory" into my firefox I get a lot of surprises.
>
> | The Ghostery add-on<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/>
> | will disable all manner of things, not just +1 and FB. It's quite instructive
> | to see what it's blocking, or not. You control what it blocks and what it
> | doesn't. Since I started using it, Firefox feels snappy again.
>
> I got around to trying ghostery recently.
>
> My FF got sluggish again (about:memory wouldn't complete), so I
> restarted it, and did an about:memory.  Now ghostery is taking 26MB,
> about 50 times!  Total: 1.517 GB.

Definitely something wacky going on there. I have about 150 tabs open 
right now. Firefox is consuming about 1.6GB in total. Ghostery appears 
about a dozen times in the tree and consumes about 55MB.
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