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callahad on Aug 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

Can anyone explain why the explicit memory metrics apparently regress between Firefox 7 and Firefox 8?

capnrefsmmat on Aug 11, 2011 [–]

A bug in how they were counted in FF7:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673851

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