Firefox eating all RAM on Ubuntu24.04

[bruce]

Hi Colin..

Saw your FF issue. weird. But something to look out for.

I was interested in your IDE thoughts. I'm looking at getting a new
laptop, thinking of an HP with the older amd ryzen 5/7 with 16G and
the SSD+1TB HD. Any thoughts?
At the same time, do you do any dev/testing with your box?  Any
pros/copns you care to share?

thanks

-bruce

On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 9:29 AM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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