On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:43:29 -0500 John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Celejar writes: > > 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. > > I see this too sometimes. Top tells me which "Web Content" process is > gobbling memory: killing it solves the problem (and closes the offending > tab). > > I wrote: > > 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). > > How often do you upgrade? I often go for months without doing so: that > may be why it happens to me. I usually upgrade as soon as a new version is available (despite your oft-reiterated suggestion that this sort of thing is really unnecessary ;)) Celejar
