memory leaks

Firefox sometimes uses more memory than it should. It is a very complicated issue caused my many things, including memory leaks, faulty third party applications, and a change in the habits of web users.

This article describes how to make Firefox use less memory (RAM).

Timesys announced a summer series of free webinars on embedded Linux development. The four "technical deep dives" will explore spotting memory leaks with MPatrol, working with the Timesys Online Linux Factory, using the OProfile profiling tool, and reducing kernel size.

Everybody's talking these days about the brand new beta release of Firefox 3, that it brings many improvements and memory leaks fixes, that it is extremely fast and polishes rough edges.

Therefore I wanted to try it myself, but I didn't want to download the binary archive and do some nasty things to my system.

"Apple issued the first Mac OS X 10.5.3 seed (9d10) to developers yesterday. The latest update to Apple's Mac OS X Leopard addresses dozens of outstanding issues.

Fixes range from Dashboard, Parental Controls, iCal Synchronization, memory leaks and stability issues. All in all, 75 distinct bug fixes are listed in the accompanying seed notes."