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Comment Re:...And one generation behind on HTML5 (Score 1) 341

"or there is some kind of flash-player type add-on made for Firefox to support h264"

Flash already uses the h.264 codec for video so there is no need for anything more. And you won't have to switch to another browser because as long as there is no universal codec standard accross browsers, sites like YouTube will continue to use Flash, at least as a fallback method.

Comment Re:Hundreds of tabs?? (Score 1) 570

The reason FF progressively uses more memory is that the DOM is wrapped in XPCOM. Since XPCOM is reference counted, it cannot properly be garbage collected by the JS engine. Microsoft has the same approach for IE. Supposedly, one of the project gols for 4.0 is to remove XPCOM bindings for the DOM so that all garbage collection uses the same scheme. In theory, this should greatly reduce the memory bloat.

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