Mozilla promises to make Firefox less voracious.

In general, most users who work with Mozilla Firefox browser know how insatiable this browser is in terms of RAM. The developers each time promise to release a version that will be less "voracious", but for now everything remains the same. The other day, Mozilla promised to make the fifth version of Firefox less demanding on system resources, adding support for the MemShrink technology.

This technology, according to representatives of Mozilla, is especially useful for owners of laptops, who suffer more than other users due to the browser's unusual appetite for RAM. Even the developers recognized that in the event of opening more than 5-6 tabs, the browser starts to consume a large amount of system resources, with the result that the battery charge drops and the laptop case (most models) heats up.
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The MemShrink technology should eliminate the problem of duplication of some system processes when opening individual tabs, which Firefox suffers from version 3.6. MemShrink will help reorganize part of resource management processes, and make them common in most cases.

Unfortunately, for the time being, developers cannot report the specific date when MemShrink support appears in Firefox browser. In addition, it is not known how much “more economical” Firefox will become after the introduction of this technology.

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