[PLUG] Re: Firefox Heap Memory Constipation

Aaron Ten Clay aaron at madebyai.com
Tue Jun 26 20:09:52 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 26 June 2007 12:31, Rogan Creswick wrote:
> On 6/26/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > > Maybe it is time for a fork, named like Ex-Lax to fix Firefox
> > > constipation.  Ex-Fox or Fox-Lax?  I will put a bit more about this up
> > > on my page at http://www.keithl.com/fixfirefox.html .
> >
> > Keith,
> >
> >    Have you tried swiftfox per Pete's recommendation? I put it in
> > yesterday and it seems much snappier compared to FF-2.0.0.4. I've not
> > been tracking memory use by individual applications, but swiftfox-2.0.0.4
> > has the response of ff-1.5.x. That's good!
>
> I ran into the same memory issues with swiftfox as firefox,
> unfortunately.  YMMV, I suppose, but I didn't notice any benefits.
>
> --Rogan
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I took a look at the patches SwiftFox is applying. Looks to me like nothing 
more than about:config style network tweaks... they just set pipelining and a 
few things like that to different defaults.

Otherwise they are probably building essentially a vanilla Firefox with GCC's 
CPU optimizations for a bunch of different CPUs. It's an interesting idea, 
but doesn't help us Gentoo users much since we tend to do this by default.

-Aaron
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