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Re: Firefox alternatives?

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On Wednesday 11 December 2024 06:00:37 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > and, some software, including
> > some web browsers (and, the vile javascript) seem to disregard that
> > instruction and its importance, which is kind of like running an internal
> > combustion engine without a governor, or, parking a vehicle on a slope,
> > without engaging the handbrake.
> 
> These programs aren't written in C.  Manual memory management is a dying
> art.  Most languages these days use automatic garbage collection, freeing
> unused memory when nothing is using it any longer.
> 
> This makes memory leaks less common, but when they *do* occur, they're
> quite difficult to find.  Usually it means you've accidentally retained
> a reference to the object in question in some part of the program that
> never goes away.

I'd really love it if firefox didn't consume increasing amounts of memory as time went on...

Why would it do that?  That's been the case for a long time  over many versions.

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Re: Firefox alternatives? "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2024-12-11 22:10 +0100
  Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-11 22:20 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-12-12 00:10 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-12-12 01:00 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2024-12-12 19:20 +0100
        Re: Firefox alternatives? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-12-12 19:30 +0100
          Re: Firefox alternatives? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-12-12 23:20 +0100
            Re: Firefox alternatives? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-12-13 08:50 +0100
          Re: Firefox alternatives? jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-12-13 01:10 +0100
            Re: Firefox alternatives? George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-12-13 02:20 +0100
  Re: Firefox alternatives? Jan Claeys <lists@janc.be> - 2024-12-13 17:00 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-13 23:10 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Jan Claeys <lists@janc.be> - 2024-12-14 00:00 +0100
  Re: Firefox alternatives? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-12-13 17:10 +0100

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