Neat article about McAfee and your PC:
McAfee's popular SiteAdvisor add-on for Firefox has a memory leak
that can lead to huge performance problems, says a Mozilla engineer. In a
blog entry
posted last Friday, Mozilla engineer Nicholas Nethercote recommended
that users disable the add-on immediately due to an "appalling" memory
leak where most of the memory used by any page opened with Firefox is
never reclaimed.
Given the multiple browser tabs that I typically have open these
days, it's easy to imagine the performance quagmire that will result as
available system RAM plunges after just a few websites. Any crashes or
system lags will inevitably be blamed on the Mozilla web browser, which
already faces stiff competition from Internet Explorer and Chrome.
While McAfee has quickly responded and announced a fix, to be
released later in the week, the situation here highlights the challenge
of ensuring that plug-in software does not contain bugs that can trigger
software crashes or severely impede performance. This consideration was
probably what led to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) opting to ditch all plug-ins in the Metro-style Internet Explorer 10 set to debut in Windows 8, and to Apple abandoning Flash.
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