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Re:Mozilla: Are We Slim Yet? by ssheth on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @10:16AM (#3797665)
nnethercote on the other hand is the "specialist" as he is in charge of the MemShrink project itself... I would trust him on this stuff.
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Re:Mozilla: Are We Slim Yet? by Tichy on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @11:32AM (#3798016)
OK, but the developers of Mozilla are specialists, too. Why not trust them? Or is nnethercote part of the Mozilla dev team? MemShrink will hopefully just be merged into the core?
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Re:Mozilla: Are We Slim Yet? by nnethercote on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @07:06PM (#3800365)
I'm a Mozilla employee and started MemShrink. I also write about it regularly: http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/category/memshrink/.

MemShrink has been running since June 2011 and there have been many improvements in Firefox's memory consumption since then; these have shown up in Firefox 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.

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Re:Mozilla: Are We Slim Yet? by int3 on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @12:42PM (#3798379)
He's part of the Mozilla dev team. Memshrink isn't a branch that's waiting to get merged, but an ongoing program to reduce overall memory usage.
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