Firefox Engineer On Memory Leaks

An explanation about Firefox's apparently excessive usage of memory in installations of Firefox 1.5 has been posted by one of the project's lead engineers. "Guess I'll make that bug a feature, huh?" -- Jimmy Neutron shows gratitude for Goddard's explosive "play dead" mode in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius That posted an overview of the issue some users have encountered. Excessive memory usage while browsing with Firefox led to complaints of poor browser performance, and even crashes. A tradeoff has been taking place as users open more tabs in Firefox, as Goodger explained: To improve performance when navigating (studies show that 39% of all page navigations are renavigations to pages visited The number of pages Firefox will cache per tab depends on the memory in the system. When the Firefox preference