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[Jan Claeys <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Op donderdag 26-08-2010 om 00:40 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Remco:
> Does anyone know why Firefox breaks down so horribly after each minor
> update? No other program does that. 

Firefox uses a bunch of JavaScript, XUL (= XML), CSS, image, etc. files
for its UI, and to me it seems like it doesn't load everything in memory
all the time, so after an upgrade it "reloads" parts of the new version
into the old one (or something is not there anymore in the new version
or any other change that might happen).

Something similar might actually happen in other applications too, e.g.
if they load plugins on demand ("when needed"), it's just that it's less
likely to happen in most applications.  And most applications would
probably just crash instead of showing funny-looking XML processing
errors...  ;)

One possible (partial?) solution could be if Firefox would load
everything from one big *.jar and keep that file open.  Not sure what
that would do to performance though, or if it has other disadvantages.


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Jan Claeys