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    From Sylvia Else@sylvia@email.invalid to comp.misc on Tue Jan 13 20:32:31 2026
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    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?

    Sylvia.
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  • From kludge@kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) to comp.misc on Tue Jan 13 08:24:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> 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.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.misc on Tue Jan 13 19:43:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:32:31 +0800, Sylvia Else wrote:

    How did we get here?

    One new HTML feature at a time.
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