Blames add-ons for the majority of its problems.

Continuing its efforts to reduce Firefox memory leaks, Mozilla’s Justin Lebar has proposed a new approach, which should eliminate at least some of the issues with various add-ons.

Here is how it would work:



– Mozilla will ask developers to check their extensions for zombie compartments that cause a lot of memory leaks.

– If any found, they should be fixed.

– If developer chooses to ignore memory leaks, users will be informed about known memory or performance bugs before add-on installation.

Minus better bug tracking, that’s pretty much it.

Will it help? Well, according to Justin, “the vast majority of bugs which take the form of “OMG Firefox is using 8 zettabytes of RAM” are not due to problems in Firefox. Instead, most major memory bugs are due to problems in Firefox add-ons.”

If this is actually true and such approach becomes reality, Mozilla might finally be able to patch its Achilles’ heel.