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Re:Firefox – tons of tools for web developers by JanOdvarko on Monday November 28, 2011 @12:30PM (#3286739)
I am hard working to fix all Firebug memory leaks (and did fix some of them recently). What I really need is a simple scenario showing that Firebug leaks. That helps me a lot!

Any input is appreciated, please post here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firebug

Honza

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Re:Firefox – tons of tools for web developers by mkopinsky on Monday November 28, 2011 @09:01PM (#3288621)
How am I to tell whether leaks are from Firefox or Firebug? What I know is that after a full day developing Firefox will use 800MB of RAM, and the only way to get rid of that is to close the entire process. I use Firebug heavily and I know that _something_ is leaking somewhere.
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Re:Firefox – tons of tools for web developers by mweibel on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @02:29AM (#3289491)
That's nice to hear! I'll take a look on how to help.

As mkopinsky points out it's sometimes hard to tell what really leaks memory. I can tell the same thing as he, but I think it has been improved a lot lately. Sometimes I had after some time working around 1.5GB Memory usage, but this is better now.

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