Firefox 15 Beta Tackles Memory Leaks - childressinks1998

Mozilla has discharged a beta variation of the next version of its Firefox web browser with better memory direction and significant speed improvements.

"Firefox 15 prevents most memory leaks caused aside add-ons, including Firebug," Nicholas Nethercote writes in a Mozilla blog. Firebug is a Firefox appurtenance for debugging web pages.

"For many users with add-ons installed, this will significantly reduce Firefox's memory consumption, without requiring upgrades to those add-ons," he adds. "For those users, Firefox 15 is in all likelihood to be quicker (sometimes drastically so) and fewer likely to clang, especially if they have multiple bestow-ons installed and/or keep Firefox running for a time-consuming time between restarts."

Nethercote explains that add-on memory leaks are caused by "zombie compartments," where information from web pages is stored and remains after you thick a page OR depart from IT.

Firefox 15 cleans out those compartments, a move that its developers weren't entirely sure would work.

Much criticism has been leveled at Firefox since its origin over its porcine memory practices, only in recent months IT has ready-made great strides in its memory direction. Last November, for instance, IT put SpiderMonkey, the Javascript locomotive engine used by the web browser, on a diet. And in May, it proclaimed its campaign to hack memory leaks in lend-ons.

In addition to better memory board direction, Firefox 15 also supports the Opus audio format. The data format, which john be played flat in Firefox 15, offers better concretion formats like MP3, Ogg, or AAC; is good for both medicine and speech; can dynamically adjust bitrate, audio frequency bandwidth and cryptography delay; and supports both interactive and prerecorded applications.

"We think Opus is an incredible new format for web audio," Timothy Terriberry writes in a Mozilla web log. "We're impermanent merciless to convince other browsers to adopt it, to break the logjam terminated a lowborn format."

The "prime time" version of Firefox 15 is regular for avaiability August 28.

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