Anyone who uses Firefox on Windows knows the browser has an almost insatiable appetite for memory, and it"s not unheard of for PCs to allocate a half GB or more of memory just to the browser alone. Mozilla continues to deny that Firefox leaks much memory, but Christopher Blizzard, a member of Mozilla"s board, says fixing the issue is a priority - - especially now that the browser developers are seeking to plow directly into the mobile space. Writes Blizzard:
"As Mozilla starts down the path to running in the mobile space we are spending time looking at memory pressure issues more closely. . . (I)t sounds like the early data suggests that Mozilla really doesn"t leak that much memory at all. But it does thrash the allocator pretty hard and that"s what causes the perception of memory leaks."