Clarion Folk

There’s a very cool post on the Pavlov.net blog, Firefox 3 Memory Usage.

There’s a lot in the post. Reducing Memory fragmentation, the Cycle collector, how image data is stored .. and lots more.

Down towards the bottom there’s a graph showing memory Megabytes over Time for IE7, Firefox 2 and Firefox 3. It’s a bit freaky. Firefox 3 has such a dramatic memory reduction. You would expect some benefit with a new version, but this is phenomenal.

What is also a bit wierd is the continual increase in memory (relatively) for IE7. Someone at Microsoft is feverishly coming up with a different graph. Or trying to reduce memory in IE8. Or perhaps they don’t care.

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This is a change that rings throughout all the fiefdoms of Nerdland!

In a post on the IEBlog (I got there from theRegister), Dean Hachamovitch posts:

We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.

This is good.

But now we’re done with that, take a look at the IEBlog. It’s good!

They are posting frequently, they use nice images, and what they post is actually interesting. I’m adding it to my NetVibes.

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