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Comment Re:What will happen when they die? (Score 1) 148

Predictable in theory but not necessarily in practice. When your metadata goes RO on you I think that's why some responses are in the area of a corrupt file system or a drive that is not recognized at all. The ones about partitions being corrupted is a much bigger issue. You would think one wouldn't normally mess with partition metadata.

Probably the file systems and low level utilities need to be updated to take into account SSD-type failures.

Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 413

Yes, I use Noscript and have a very short whitelist. Many sites don't fully work. Some, like slashdot can work if you're logged in and choose the classic discussion settings. If you're not logged in you're forced to use the interactive settings, requiring JavaScript. It's the same if you're trying to surf using links/lynx.

Your 100MHz example is probably using Linux and either some lightweight browser and you're comparing your 2600K running Vista and IE.

Comment Re:All browsers are consuming more memory. (Score 1) 375

FF 5 beta buildID 20110608151458

Overview
                        Memory mapped:153,092,096
                        Memory in use:147,875,008

The largest I can see that I think I could control are:

storage/sqlite/pagecache 47,601,304
storage/places.sqlite/Cache_Used 45,047,832

FF 2 and 3 had an easy way to change the retention period but I guess they removed it for 4 and 5? http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries doesn't say if the history preferences are applicable to 4 and 5 anymore. I'm also using the portable version of beta 5 so the cache in Advanced > Network : Offline Storage, Limit cache to X MB of space is 0.

Anyone know what to change that affect those two storage properties? I prefer maybe 30 days' worth of history.

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