This default is no longer useful. Safari used it at one point, but no longer can with webkit running as a separate process. rdar://problem/20470158
Created attachment 250768 [details] Patch
Comment on attachment 250768 [details] Patch r=me. Just curious, what motivated the removal of this code? Is it simply because it's not needed anymore?
(In reply to comment #2) > Just curious, what motivated the removal of this code? Is it simply because > it's not needed anymore? Never mind. You already explained why in the bugzilla description.
Committed r182831: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/182831>
The motivation is memory use.