[geeks] I love it when software gets more efficient

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Awhile back the Mozilla project made a lot of noise about Firefox and
Thunderbird, wanting everyone to switch.

One of the big benefits was to be that as separate applications they
would be more memory efficient.

Now that I've used Firefox and Thunderbird for a couple of years, this
is what I observe:

Mozilla Suite used about 120MB total when I last used it in 2004.

Today I checked Firefox and Thunderbird after they'd been running about
10 hours.

Firefox was using 220MB, and Thunderbird was using 280MB.

I sure am glad they've been made more efficient... :/

Does everyone else see numbers like this?  Surely these are memory
leaks?

I've tried Firefox with and without plugins, and there isn't much
difference.

Firefox also has no user control of memory cache any more, so I don't
know how to tell what is memory leaking and what is cached.

Same for Thunderbird.

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are -- just as there's a limit to the amount of hydrogen in the Universe. 
There's a lot, but there's a limit.  -- Dave C. Barber on a.f.c.  ]