Radha Kulkarni wrote:
> Session History currently grows unbounded and has occupied the #2 slot
> on the bloat chart. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62651
> lists some of the ideas that have been thrown at the table. For 6.5,
> saving a limited (but configurable) number of entries in SH seems
> attractive.
I've added some comments to the bug.
1. should observer memory pressure so when a machine is low on mem,
history gets notified and can clean up.
2. prefs config for max num of entries.
> I'm not sure how affects the embedding world.
The impact on embedding is significant. unbounded caches quickly blow
out memory on low memory devices (which many embeddingn devices are).
Jud