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		barrkel on Oct 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dear Mozilla: Fix Your Damn Browser I have a different problem. Firefox now aggressively trims memory usage - over-aggressively trims it, to the point that switching tabs incurs a 0.5 second pause as it reallocates memory it had thrown away. This is Firefox 7, and is most noticeable in image-heavy websites.

bzbarsky on Oct 14, 2011 [–]

This is just discarding of decoded images; the issue there is not reallocating but having to redecode the image...

There is work ongoing to limit the redecoding to only the things that are visible in the viewport to alleviate this problem.

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