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177 points keepamovin | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 10:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Shank ◴[02 Sep 25 12:44 UTC] No.45102381[source]▶
Lately, I’ve experienced memory leaks in Firefox that I’m too amateur to diagnose, that leads to Firefox eating 8gb of memory in some web renderer process. So when I excitedly check the changelog hoping for a summary of possible changes, I’m disappointed that there isn’t a verbose changelog for advanced users. I’m sure I could search bugzilla, but it makes me sad that the only “important” things are the headlining features.
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1. foxes ◴[02 Sep 25 13:41 UTC] No.45102998[source]▶
Some of the new ai slop features lag our firefox

Go into about:config and search for browser.ml stuff. Some of it is just for text completion, but you can also load models - transformer js, and also send stuff to chat gpt.

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2. sunaookami ◴[02 Sep 25 14:18 UTC] No.45103461[source]▶
No they don't, please stop spreading misinformation. There was a performance regression due to the new vector search which was fixed before it even reached 1% of Firefox users in the US alone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44912974