• QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
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    21 days ago

    Does it kill Firefox if it tries to go over the limit? I think I tried this once and if there is a memory leak it just closes itself (which is batter than hogging the whole system, bit still)

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      No, it just limits the amount of RAM that Firefox (or whatever other application you launch with these parameters) will see.

      A few Firefox tabs may crash occasionally as a side effect. And obviously if Firefox eats up all of the 8GB it’s allocated it may crash itself though usually it doesn’t and tabs will crash before the browser crashes.