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

[Dave Mason]

| From: Dave Mason <dmason-bqArmZWzea/GcjXNFnLQ/w at public.gmane.org>
|    exec real-firefox

>"D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> By real-firefox, I assume you mean the normal firefox script.  That
> sets up a bunch of crud for the firefox binary.

Yes.

> Since ulimits are inherited, there is no need to exec the actual
> binary.

It saves a shell process hanging around.  Consider it a twitch from when
it mattered that I usually exec in such wrapper scripts.

../Dave
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