On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 10:21:42 -0500 John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> rhkramer writes: > > When I have as few as 10 to 15 tabs open on the Firefox on my Jessie > > system, Firefox crashes (I mentioned in a previous post in this thread > > having a thousand or more tabs "open" in Firefox on Wheezy with > > minimal problems -- yes occasional crashes (maybe once every 2 to 4 > > weeks?), but I couldn't come near that on Jessie, and I expect the > > same problem on Buster. > > What Firefox version? I used to see frequent Firefox crashes > (apparently memory leaks: my system is always up) but that stopped a few > years ago (though the irritation of that has been replaced by the I seem to have memory leaks with recent Firefox (currently 74.0.1-1 from Sid) - memory use goes slowly but steadily up, and eventually gets maxed out and the system grinds to a halt. It takes a while for this to happen, but I find myself eventually needing to kill and restart Firefox. > irritation of being required to create a new profile every time I > upgrade Firefox). Interesting - apparently some people get this, but some don't (I update regularly from the Sid repos, and I don't generally see this). Celejar
