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

[Amanda Yilmaz]

This *is* with Firefox 3, specifically 3.0.3.  (Actually, it's Debian
Iceweasel, but as far as I can tell it's exactly the same thing, only
using Debian's Very Special Branding.)

Amanda


----- Original message -----
From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:32:05 -0500
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: How do you force Firefox to not eat all your
memory?

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 04:41:29PM -0500, Amanda Yilmaz wrote
> I'm angry.  I'm furious.  I am enraged.  I have HAD IT.
> 
> I've just had to kill my X server for the umpteenth time because Firefox
> absolutely will not respect any limits on its memory consumption.  It
> just keeps eating and eating, and never, absolutely never, will it
> relinquish its claim on any memory once it's been allocated, even if you
> close all your tabs and windows down to the very last one.  Even if you
> try to limit the number of Web pages open at any one time, navigate to
> the "wrong" site, and Firefox will suddenly slow your system down to the
> point where you can't even navigate to a terminal or use XKill to kill
> it.  The only solution is killing the X server via Ctrl-Alt-Backspace,
> and even that doesn't work if the event queue is backed up to the point
> where it takes a half hour for your keystrokes to get through.

  That is a problem for some Firefox 2 users.  Official support for FF2
is due to end in approx a month, and Firefox 3 will be the only
supported version.  You may find it worth your while to migrate now.
Most users already have.  Significantly cleaned up memory leaks is one
of the bragging points of FF3.  It was released back in in mid-June, so
the pioneers (the guys with the arrows in their backs<G>) have found the
"point zero" bugs and it's already at version 3.0.4, and most add-ons
have updated to support FF3.

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