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

[From: Tony Green]

On Tuesday 15 Apr 2008, Erik Hovland wrote:
> 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.

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

Sadly not. I tried Fennec earlier today and unfortunately I found it an even 
bigger memory-hog than the current browser. In fact it actually managed to 
top 100%, which could have been entertaining without a swap-file.



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