Does Anyone Leave It Open Overnight? [LWN.net]

Does Anyone Leave It Open Overnight?

Posted Oct 5, 2004 16:02 UTC (Tue) by josh_stern (guest, #4868)
Parent article: Neowin Interview : Ben Goodger, chief developer of Firefox (Neowin.net)

My experience with basically all browsers in the Netscape/Mozilla/
Firefox series has been that it is perilous to leave them open
overnight. The risk is massive memory use/paging, due to some sort
of defacto leaks, eventually leading to real problems. The ability
to just leave the browser open is the main feature I would like
to see added.

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Does Anyone Leave It Open Overnight?

Posted Oct 7, 2004 8:11 UTC (Thu) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760) [Link]

I leave it open most of the time, without problem. On Linux.

Does Anyone Leave It Open Overnight?

Posted Oct 7, 2004 13:04 UTC (Thu) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link]

So do I - but Firefox does most definitely leak memory. Possibly it's just on occasions, since it can be up for quite a while before it becomes a problem, but I recently had to close FF after it started taking up 2.5GB of memory. On a system with 2GB swap and 1GB real RAM, this is something of a problem. :-)