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		capnrefsmmat on July 11, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Ch... There's a number of major memory usage bugs that have been fixed in Firefox 7 -- both leaks and issues with garbage collection and fragmentation. For example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666058#c31 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656120#c44 The second bug specifically should help resolve the "Firefox has been open for two days and now it eats my entire system" problem.

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