Patch have memory leaks from add-ons in Firefox counteract

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Mozilla sets with a patch is a large part of the memory leaks to be able to fix that in Firefox by add-ons are caused. The patch is ge lwa now integrated into the latest nightly builds. Some add-ons would be problematic, however, remain.

Developer Kyle Huey came in recently with a patch on the stuff that chrome-to-content memory leaks in problematic add-ons for Firefox would change. On his blog reports Mozilla developer Nicholas Nethercote, who is involved in the MemShrink program, that the patch in practice seems to work against memory leaks. During a test with a series of add-ons which are known to be unintentional memory resources, it would be the patched Firefox version no zombie compartments contain more, with a greatly reduced memory usage as a result.

A lot of problematic add-ons will continue through the patch is no longer memory retention. Nethercote reports, however, that add-ons with older versions of Mozilla Add-on SDK are written, by the patch on exactly the memory can go gobble up. Add-ons with a new version of the sdk are built to exhibit the problem. However, there is still a large number of add-ons for Firefox is available that with the old sdk are built.

The Mozilla developers have the patch already incorporated in the latest nightly builds of Firefox and this, in term, in Firefox 15 are included. This version should be on 28 August to come true. Until that time, would developers of outdated add-ons encouraged should be to have their extensions re-build using the Add-on SDK version 1.6.1.