[extropy-chat] Optimal computer configurations [Was: Commentary: Does Karl Schroeder's opinion reallymatter?]

[Alfio Puglisi]

On 5/1/06, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Ah.  Does Firefox have its on memory management internally or does it
> just depend on raw request to the platform alloc routines that it
> then chains together.  From the description i would guess the
> latter.

The latter, and AFAIK it doesn't free the memory used by the images in
a tab when you close it, so the memory usage grows and grows. It's
also single-threaded, and a processor-intensive tab can effectively
hang the others for quite a while.

Alfio