David Coleman

Garbage collection is great. But it would be great if we had the ability to arbitrarily "free" a given object and it's children, a-la-c/c++. As always the burden of avoiding run time errors is the responsibility of the developer. And frankly, I've done the math many times. The byte weight of recursive destroy code for complex data objects, is much greater than the null-pointer checking code required to account for an un-anticipated free operation.

this is true, but also be aware that in some versions of Firefox, this change will cause the flash player plugin to crash when an exception popup is raised by the player outside of a debug session. I recommend that you also modify your mm.cfg file to surpress exception popups, to ensure maximum stability of your browsing platform, when NOT debugging.