I remember sometime back probably around 2004. There was a lot of noise regarding memory leak in FF. And the expert sounding ones started to claim that there was no memory leak and the very large memory usage in FF was because of browser history and cache storage. Then one year later they all accepted that FF was actually leaking memory.
Since then I stopped accepting expert opinion blindly.
There is an important difference between "expert-sounding" and "expert".
Where memory leaks (or pretty much any performance metric) are involved, the more sure someone sounds, the less likely they are to be an expert unless they have done extensive measurements to back up their claims.
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I remember sometime back probably around 2004. There was a lot of noise regarding memory leak in FF. And the expert sounding ones started to claim that there was no memory leak and the very large memory usage in FF was because of browser history and cache storage. Then one year later they all accepted that FF was actually leaking memory.
Since then I stopped accepting expert opinion blindly.
Experts are sometimes wrong. That doesn't change the fact that they're right vastly more often than non-experts.
There is an important difference between "expert-sounding" and "expert".
Where memory leaks (or pretty much any performance metric) are involved, the more sure someone sounds, the less likely they are to be an expert unless they have done extensive measurements to back up their claims.
I could be wrong, but wasn't a large part of this due to Flash?
I think it turned out that a large part of it was due to, like, 100 different small things. There was never a memory leak.