On 1/12/22 06:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 20:25 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 16:58 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> what is 'earlyoom'?
> OOM is an out-of-memory condition, earlyoom is something that's
> supposed to jump in and manage the memory use (somehow) before you
> run
> out of free memory.
>
> I'm not surprised at Firefox being a problem. It's a behemoth of a
> program, all feature-full web browsers are, and there's a lot of bad
> websites (intentional or not).
>
> Just the other day I spent over an hour pruning all the tabs I'd left
> open of things I had/hadn't finished researching over the last year.
> There was a lot of, close tab I've read that, close the tab because
> the
> site has vanished (always download anything you consider vital), and
> bookmark it for later and close the tab.
You might consider the Tab Session Manager extension. It periodically
(or on demand) saves your current tabs and windows and can restore them
again on startup, but optionally not actually load each page until you
decide to visit it.
I seem to get that behavior now out of the box with Ff 95 in Fed35?
Just yesterday, to clean memory up, I <cntl-q> firefox. Waited a while
until top reported all those "Isolated web" processes ended, restarted
Firefox, and all my windows and tabs restored. The tabs were there, but
no 'content' until I switched to said tab and THEN the content was received.