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A look at memory usage in Firefox 3

A look at memory usage in Firefox 3

Posted Mar 12, 2008 18:45 UTC (Wed) by oak (guest, #2786)
Parent article: A look at memory usage in Firefox 3

Gifs are not that complicated.  Why animation needs to be in the memory as 
uncompressed?


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A look at memory usage in Firefox 3

Posted Mar 12, 2008 19:22 UTC (Wed) by i3839 (subscriber, #31386) [Link]

Because otherwise they can't be displayed. As for caching:

> In Firefox 3, thanks to some work by Federico Mena-Quintero (of GNOME
> fame), we now throw away the uncompressed data after it hasn’t been used
> for a short while.

This change is so much more important than that animation thing quoted.

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