Your comment motivated me to go and register an account. Well done.
I typically have 20 or so tabs open, and 1.5GB of memory in my machine. Firefox normally consumes more than half of that.
There have been several cases where I've gone away for a couple of days, leaving Firefox open. I've come back to find Firefox has consumed all my memory, 2GB of swap, and the OOM-killer has gone nuts nuking everything in sight.
The problem is evidently fairly widespread, but it does sound like quite a few people don't experience it. I wonder if perhaps it is accentuated by pages that auto-refresh, like Gmail (which I normally have open).
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Your comment motivated me to go and register an account. Well done.
I typically have 20 or so tabs open, and 1.5GB of memory in my machine. Firefox normally consumes more than half of that.
There have been several cases where I've gone away for a couple of days, leaving Firefox open. I've come back to find Firefox has consumed all my memory, 2GB of swap, and the OOM-killer has gone nuts nuking everything in sight.
The problem is evidently fairly widespread, but it does sound like quite a few people don't experience it. I wonder if perhaps it is accentuated by pages that auto-refresh, like Gmail (which I normally have open).