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Mon collègue Stuart 'Pavlov' Parmenter vient de publier un très long billet sur la consommation de mémoire des navigateurs, et de Firefox 2 et 3 en particulier. Il explique comment Mozilla a travaillé pour réduire la consommation de mémoire de Firefox. Je vous fait grâce des détails, et je résume les points clés en fin de billet.

This is interesting. Initially it seemed that Firefox 3.0 beta 1 was consuming more memory than 2.0.0.9, but during the twelve page test I started seeing what I’ve been seeing before - spiraling memory consumption when the browser is under significant load. I’m certain that if the browser had been left open longer, memory usage would have continued to rise. I didn’t see much signs of Firefox 3.0 beta 1 doing this. Certainly based on this test and from using Firefox 3.0 beta 1 today, I do think that things have significantly improved.