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Memory leak in firefox2/27/2023 But even with an idle browser this happens - another chap in our Linux Users Group has reported the identical problem. With more tabs open, or active use of the browser, this happens faster. And yes, it is paralyzed, as other tasks start getting written out to the swap space. There's only 2.2 GB unused at the moment, so I can expect the system to be paralyzed in about a day. With just six tabs open, and no browser activity except whatever Javascript is running on those web pages - i.e., with the Firefox window minimized - RAM consumption is increasing at roughly 100 MB per hour. I don't know if it's the version of Firefox included with "Stretch," or the build for a 64-bit system, but Firefox is now a RAM hog. And yet I had never witnessed this myself, even on my wife's computer, where she would leave Firefox running for days with a dozen or more tabs open. This causes the RAM usage to steadily increase, until Firefox is using all available RAM. I have known for many years about the notorious Firefox "memory leak." This is when the browser allocates RAM from the operating system to display some page, and then neglects to release that RAM when done.
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