Thank you for the suggestion. It seems to have fixed my issue. I added the following to my ~/.profile with this minor correction (closing double parenthesis):
alias chrome='ulimit -d $((3*1024*1024)); /usr/local/bin/chrome' alias firefox='ulimit -d $((3*1024*1024)); /usr/local/bin/firefox' Best regards On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 03:28:25PM +0000, Maurice McCarthy wrote: > Are you browsers allowed enough memory? > > Someone on this list once suggested putting lines like these in ~/.kshrc > > # Raising the memory limits to accommodate greedy browsers 3Gb > alias chrome='(ulimit -d $((3*1024*1024); /usr/local/bin/chrome' > alias firefox='(ulimit -d $((3*1024*1024); /usr/local/bin/firefox' > > Regards -- Philippe