[maemo-users] Web-browser memory consumption on OS2008

[From: Erik Hovland]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:42:42PM +0100, Tony Green wrote:
> Has anybody else noticed that the web browser seems to take an awful lot of 
> memory up on OS2008?

I've noticed it too. This gets especially worse with embedded flash,
like youtube and its ilk.

> Not that I've any idea what it used on OS2007, as I don't think I ever looked. 
> But it seems rather excessive - any suggestions as to how to reduce the 
> footprint? As I'm using the browser to display  pages from the on-board 
> Apache server, built from the on-board MySQL database, I must be swapping an 
> awful lot...

Help should be on the way:
http://gizmodo.com/378045/mobile-firefox-is-six-times-faster-than-nokias-browser-on-the-n810

But you are on your own with the apache and mysql resource
requirements ;)

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