• uis@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    Alternatively you can open about:config and limit memory usage there. For example limit in-memory cache.

    EDIT: it seems firefox doesn’t allow to set RAM limits yet, only cache sizes

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      17 days ago

      Something I didn’t consider when answering earlier is that even if Firefox did have good RAM usage limiting built-in I probably still wouldn’t use it or recommend it, because one of Firefox’s biggest problems is that it leaks. And memory leaks will not be negated by Firefox’s built-in RAM limiter but they will be by systemd’s (or anything else you might be using instead) Firefox would still crash in the event of a leak but it’s still better than it taking gnome or other apps with it, or freezing your system entirely.