Firefox eating all RAM on Ubuntu24.04

[Robert Heller]

I use Firefox 128.0-1+rpt6 arm64 (via the Debian 12 / arm64 repo) on my Rpi 5
with 4gig of RAM w/ 4Gig of swap on a M2 SSD, with little problems. (I won't
use Chromium -- I really don't like the UI.) Yes, certain sites suck down RAM
-- I generally avoid such sites. I have a ram and swap usage thingy in my
panel and keep an eye on RAM and Swap. I just exit andn restart FF when things
get close to the edge. I almost never run videos from FF -- I have a Roku TV
that has a YouTube app, which I use for YouTube videos. But I do often run FF
long term with serveral windows and tabs open without much problems.

At Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:56:33 -0400 noloader at gmail.com, "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 8:33 AM 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?
> 
> Take a look at Firefox uses too much memory or CPU resources,
> <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources>.
> 
> Jeff
> 

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