Thanks for the report Daniel. Unfortunately browsers in general are becoming ever more memory-hungry, this is a general trend that doesn't play well with legacy systems with a modest amount of RAM (although the 12GBÂ that you mention should be plenty).
There is no silver bullet, but here are a few suggestions that could help. The "about:memory" page in firefox has a "Minimize memory usage" button that could help in some situations. If you tend to have a large number of tabs open, there are extensions that can suspend the ones in the background to reclaim used memory. Lastly, the nohang package suggested by Oibaf may be a good idea. It will kill renderer processes early, before your system starts swapping. If you are seeing actual memory leaks in firefox, I encourage you to report them upstream at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi#h=dupes%7CFirefox. I'm closing this bug as it's not really actionable, and unlikely Ubuntu-specific. Feel free to re-open with additional data if you think there are Ubuntu-specific problems that should be addressed. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1899309 Title: firefox leaks memory and crashes computer (lack of swap) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1899309/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
