Firefox eating all RAM on Ubuntu24.04

[Colin Law]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 at 13:33, Carsten Agger <agger at modspil.dk> wrote:
>
> Recently I've noticed, that certain rather JavaScript-heavy web pages -
> especially RocketChat, Gitlab and Whereby.com video chat - seem to make
> Firefox use gargantuan amounts of RAM, ending up exhausting the swap
> space (I have 16GB of RAM and 1GB of swap space - too little swap, but
> with 16G's of RAM that shouldn't be a problem).
>
> I'm using Firefox 129 (Canonical snap edition) on Ubuntu 24.04. I'm not
> seeing the same problem when viewing the same web pages in Chromium.
>
> Does anyone have similar experiences or (in the best of cases) know of a
> workaround?

I gave up on Firefox a little while ago after having similar problems,
I fear it is past its sell-by date.  My workaround is to grudgingly
admit that at last MS have some decent s/w in the guise of Edge, and
also VSCode which is the best code editor I have ever used.

Colin L.