Mozilla hevelt Firefox 7 Tuesday over to the Aurora-testkanaal. In these builds has the browserbouwer considerably doctored to a speed lwa nter the memory manager, which Firefox on systems with limited memory better need to run.
Firefox 6, that in the course of Tuesday in the bètakanaal should be to find all the first improvements in the ‘about:memory’page buttons to provide that certain memory areas cleaned can be. This removes the garbage collection button unused javascript objects, while the cycle collection button the broom gets by objects in the dom have accumulated. The user can also click on the button ‘minimize memory usage’ button, which both opschoonmechanismen three times to be activated.
Mozilla has Firefox 7 improved memory management further tightened. So is the frequency of the garbage collection mechanism a opschoonronde starts is incremented. It is also a more efficient way memory is allocated to system processes of Firefox, which is faster would be freed.
The geheugenoptimalisaties that Mozilla is implementing, according to many Firefox users to the browser on systems with 2GB ram or less to run. In particular, Firefox 4, and to a lesser extent, the recently released Firefox 5 are less choosy and may especially for long surf sessions in an unnecessarily heavy strains on the available memory. Mozilla decided a group of developers are free to make them in the MemShrink team to work on geheugenoptimalisaties.
