Indeed, I think to start with this would be very useful. Even if no other info is presented, it would certainly help to mitigate any memory issues as much as possible.
If nothing else the running script could act to reduce memory usage. On 28 Sep 2010 00:44, "Charles Pritchard" <ch...@jumis.com> wrote: On 9/27/10 3:30 PM, Rob Evans wrote: > > I think one of the most useful things that a js script could know is how much memory is availab... On 27 Sep 2010 23:19, "timeless" <timel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> what exactly do you intend to do if you get such a signal? >> >> In general, this is mostl... I'm just talking about the bare minimum: sending a simple event window.dispatchEvent(lowmemory) No details / guarantees. It's just a hint. Mozilla has made efforts to handle low memory issues (allocation errors or otherwise) mainly in the handling of image resources. I'd like to see the practice become more widespread.
