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Tumblr is a personal blog at blog.kylehuey.com about programming and systems. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Fixing the (Firefox) Memory Leak”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for a post on the fix for Firefox add-on memory leaks (the "Hueyfix"), cited as detailed technical background on the Firefox 13 to 15 performance work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Fixing the (Firefox) Memory Leak4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-04-27
What Hacker News says?
Mozilla appears to be working on this[0], and improvements are already being seen. (Just as they are vastly improving all the other aspects detractors like to bring up, e.g. memory usage[1], including that of addons via the "Hueyfix"[2].) [0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy [1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink [2]: http://blog.kylehuey.com/post/21892343371/fixing-the-memory-...
Comment linking /post/21892343371/fixing-the-memory-leak
on “Mozilla Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS”Submitted Fixing the (Firefox) Memory Leak as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSo far as I understand, there was a change made which cut off a leak between add-ons and the tabs/windows they were attached to, so that closed tabs weren't being held in memory just because an add-on had a reference to them. However, that change broke something in earlier versions of the Add-on SDK, which means that at least one Add-on was then leaking memory like crazy. Upgrading that add-on to the latest version…
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on “Firefox finally plugs the leak”Submitted Cycle Collector on Worker Threads as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's some detailed information about the addon leak fix from the developer who fixed it: http://blog.kylehuey.com/post/21892343371/fixing-the-memory-...
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on “Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak”Submitted Pushing Compilers to the Limit (and Beyond) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn fact, we have recently fixed a common source of addon memory leaks: http://blog.kylehuey.com/post/21892343371/fixing-the-memory-... The version containing this fix is scheduled to be released in August, I believe.
Comment linking /post/21892343371/fixing-the-memory-leak
on “Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13”