Firefox eating all RAM on Ubuntu24.04

[Carsten Agger]

Recently I've noticed, that certain rather JavaScript-heavy web pages - 
especially RocketChat, Gitlab and Whereby.com video chat - seem to make 
Firefox use gargantuan amounts of RAM, ending up exhausting the swap 
space (I have 16GB of RAM and 1GB of swap space - too little swap, but 
with 16G's of RAM that shouldn't be a problem).

I'm using Firefox 129 (Canonical snap edition) on Ubuntu 24.04. I'm not 
seeing the same problem when viewing the same web pages in Chromium.

Does anyone have similar experiences or (in the best of cases) know of a 
workaround?

Best,
Carsten

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