HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How do I change the colours on Firefox 3.0??????????/ Some of them are yellow, and can't be read. ANYBODY, please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Otherwise, I'm going back to Microsoft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Pat -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2008/06/17 22:55 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [social] Download Firefox 3.0 Today Rod Engelsman wrote: > Done. Very nice. Seems to load pages significantly faster... and here I > thought the bottleneck was my Internet connection. One thing I love about FF3 is that they have really improved the memory problems. They fixed 400 bugs/issues related to memory, including many memory leaks. They also changed Gecko to use memory more efficiently. Let me give some examples: * Every item in the cache now has a timestamp and as they expire they are removed from memory. * They no longer keep a copy of uncompressed images in memory. * They switched to a new memory allocator written by a FreeBSD guy. You know how hard drives can get fragmented over time, right? Well, memory gets fragmented too. You don't notice because you normally run an application for only a few hours and when you close it, all the memory it was using gets returned. But for an application like Firefox, which could be running for several weeks at a time, memory fragmentation does matter. I close my FireFox 2 about once every 3 weeks. That's when memory consumption gets big enough that I get tired and close it. The new memory allocator largely avoids fragmentation. * One source of memory leaks was not Firefox itself, but the plugins. The plugins have access to Firefox internals and they could create circular object references where object A has a pointer to object B but object B has a pointer to object A. No other part of the program is using either A or B but they don't get removed from memory because Gecko thinks that they are still in use. Hence, you get a memory leak. Gecko 1.9 has something in it that detects most circular references, even when they are due to interaction with a plugin, and clears the memory. Anyways, I'm very happy about the changes. My #1 issue with Firefox has always been memory consumption. There are other nice new features, but memory is my favourite feature. Cheers, Daniel. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.4.0/1507 - Release Date: 08/06/18 07:09 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
