[Desktop-packages] [Bug 730311] Re: firefox takes enormous amounts of RAM and swap space, growing until system crashes

2018-08-05 Thread Paul White
Thanks. Closing by marking "Invalid" as bug report was never in "Confirmed" status. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 730311] Re: firefox takes enormous amounts of RAM and swap space, growing until system crashes

2018-08-05 Thread Bzzz
Alright, let's come to an end here. FF60 ESR will finally drop market share below 10% / IE levels, and nobody cares about performance problems and memory leaks on marginal browsers when they were ignored at 30% market share already. It's dead, Jim. -- You received this bug notification because

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 730311] Re: firefox takes enormous amounts of RAM and swap space, growing until system crashes

2018-08-05 Thread Paul White
Presumably you installed and update from https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa and apport can't collect info from PPA installed applications. Looking at the PPA page it seems that 52.9 ESR is due to be replaced by 60.2 ESR on 27th August. I think you have two options to ensure

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 730311] Re: firefox takes enormous amounts of RAM and swap space, growing until system crashes

2018-08-05 Thread Bzzz
How collect that data with package firefox-esr installed? FF 52 ESR is not/no longer available from Ubuntu repositories. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/730311 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 730311] Re: firefox takes enormous amounts of RAM and swap space, growing until system crashes

2018-07-28 Thread Paul White
Thanks for your reply Bzzz, In order to keep the bug report current please upload updated logs by running once in a terminal: apport-collect 730311 And then change the status of the report from "Incomplete" back to "New". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 730311] Re: firefox takes enormous amounts of RAM and swap space, growing until system crashes

2018-07-28 Thread Bzzz
Still an issue with FF ESR 52.9.0 and 8GB of RAM on Ubuntu 18.04. Grows like cancer from a few hundred MB at startup to 2GB+, gets laggy above 1.5GB, gets unusable at 2GB. Not killing the entire system anymore, but I can tell memory usage from zippyness of loading pages and reaction time of

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 730311] Re: firefox takes enormous amounts of RAM and swap space, growing until system crashes

2018-07-28 Thread Paul White
Bzzz, We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time. Presumably this problem was a one time occurrence and/or is no longer an issue? Can this bug