I had similar issues after doing a complete reinstall of my system (Ubuntu 14.04) and using the propietary drivers that came with Ubuntu. Each time Fire Fox was open the system hanged. However Firefox 's higher memory consumption was a side effect of the main culprit. Even setting the: about:memory -> minimize memory usage did not help. So i knew i had to look elsewhere.
Both my Nvdia 740M and FireFox where eating all the memory on the system. Installing the latest bumblebee drivers fixed it , as i have no freezes anymore. sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia primus nvidia-331 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1318403 Title: Firefox continuously freezes and freezes the rest of the system (Ubuntu 14.04) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1318403/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
