A look at memory usage in Firefox 3 [LWN.net]

A look at memory usage in Firefox 3

Posted Mar 12, 2008 19:22 UTC (Wed) by i3839 (guest, #31386)
In reply to: A look at memory usage in Firefox 3 by oak
Parent article: A look at memory usage in Firefox 3

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 hasnt been used
> for a short while.

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