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   Computer Nerd Kev to Scott Dorsey   
   Re: Memory usage   
   14 Jan 26 07:31:36   
   
   From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   > Sylvia Else   wrote:   
   >>I start Firefox, and before any web pages are opened it's already using   
   >>almost 700 Mb of memory. That's nearly three times the size of my first   
   >>hard disk.   
   >>   
   >>What on Earth is it doing?   
   >>   
   >>How did we get here?   
   >   
   > It's libraries all the way down.   
      
   I doubt that's the problem, most of the libraries used by it   
   overall are for GTK3, and GTK3 programs aren't all as bad as that   
   for memory usage.   
      
   Well probably not as bad as that, it seems every other GTK program   
   I use is GTK2 or earlier.   
      
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