96066 - memory footprint 2-4x that of Netscape 4.x

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 92580

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Mitch Green]

From a very large Netscape customer:
1. By biggest concern is memory footprint.  I don't think we'll be able 
to deploy it at it's current levels. Netscape 6.1 seems to initially 
allocate about 20-24MB upon startup.  Netscape 4 allocates 10-12MB upon 
startup.  Our current home office and branch NT workstations only have 
64MB of RAM.  On the x86/x-term side, we only allocate 48MB to the 
Netscape process.  As the memory allocaton grows, performance degrades. 
Based on our current problems, I'm very concerned about this large 
inital footprint and would like to see it much smaller.

Comment 1

[Chase Tingley]

*** Bug 96067 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

This is probably a dup of an existing meta bug.

/be

Comment 3

[Mitch Green]

> This is probably a dup of an existing meta bug.

"probably" ???  It is or it isn't.  "probably" ???
  
Sorry, but Mozilla is a whale. Does this have anyone's attention?

Comment 4

[Paul Chen]

there's a tracking bug for memory bloat, marking as a dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92580 ***