Firefox eating all RAM on Ubuntu24.04

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 8:33 AM Carsten Agger <agger at modspil.dk> wrote:
>
> 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?

Take a look at Firefox uses too much memory or CPU resources,
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources>.

Jeff