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Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory by yason on Thursday August 11, 2011 @02:53PM (#2874226)
Memory is cheap. High UI latency and cross-browser crashes aren't. Sorry.
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Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory by lurker19 on Thursday August 11, 2011 @03:00PM (#2874251)
Some people run other apps alongside Firefox and some of those apps also want to provide low UI latency.
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Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory by vegai on Thursday August 11, 2011 @03:22PM (#2874349)
"Memory is cheap."

Please leave this field.

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Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory by andhow on Friday August 12, 2011 @12:01AM (#2875935)
Paging isn't cheap; neither are cache misses.
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