How do you force Firefox to not eat all your memory?

[Howard Gibson]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:41:29 -0500
"Amanda Yilmaz" <ayilmaz-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I'm angry.  I'm furious.  I am enraged.  I have HAD IT.
> 
> ...
> 
> Is there a way to force Firefox (and other similarly piggish
> applications) into some kind of memory-allocation jail where it
> absolutely cannot, under *any* circumstances, use more than a certain
> amount of memory (say, 75% of the total)?  I'd rather see it crash due
> to starvation than freeze the system to the point where you have to kill
> the X server to escape.  There must be *some* way to do this!

Amanda,

   I usually surf with Opera.

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