Last week we shared a number of updates with our community of users, and now we want to share them here: At Mozilla, we work hard to make Firefox the best
That’s not the browser doing that. That’s whatever website(s) you’re heading to that are making that many memory requests. The entire firefox binary isn’t anywhere near that value.
Y’all got to remember, HTML5 is almost like it’s own OS at this point. Your web browser is just a typewriter into the kernel and the sites you visit are the programs being managed. If you run /usr/bin/really_large_program, it shouldn’t surprise you when your terminal is reporting the kernel allocing 8GB.
And boy are there a lot of very bad web programmers out there.
That’s not the browser doing that. That’s whatever website(s) you’re heading to that are making that many memory requests. The entire firefox binary isn’t anywhere near that value.
Y’all got to remember, HTML5 is almost like it’s own OS at this point. Your web browser is just a typewriter into the kernel and the sites you visit are the programs being managed. If you run
/usr/bin/really_large_program, it shouldn’t surprise you when your terminal is reporting the kernel allocing 8GB.And boy are there a lot of very bad web programmers out there.