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		JoshTriplett on July 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: This is why memory fragmentation is bad So don't run win32. :) We've had 64-bit processors for a while now, run a 64-bit OS and you have all the address space you might want.

silon on July 5, 2011 | [–]

LOL. Yesterday, I restarted firefox because it ate 13GB of virtual memory and started to get really unusable.

sid0 on July 5, 2011 | [–]

And even on 64-bit Windows, 32-bit Firefox will get the full 4 GB of address space.

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