Comment 11 for bug 217908

I have a build of firefox-granparadiso to test Federico's patch. I launched it at the command line with env MOZ_DISABLE_IMAGE_OPTIMIZE=1 firefox-granparadiso. Then I loaded the site http://www.carteretcountyschools.org/bms/teacherwebs/sdavenport/artgallery6.htm to see what happened and monitored with xrestop. Pixmap storage would hit very close to 25MB then be cleared and start over. This seemed to work very well. If I simply launched without the environment variable, Pixmap storage would climb to over 500MB+ by the time the page finished loading. This seems acceptable. Is this possible to do in Firefox 2.0.0.6 and is it possible to set the environment variable permanently?

I could still see a use for a user settable limit on storage, and the ability to set this environment variable in about:config to make it more user friendly. A settable discard timer would also be helpful. All of these would make Firefox more usable in low memory situations and still allow defaults to be set for performance in standard higher memory situations.

Thanks,
Jim