After I raised ulimit -d to 2G, I could not get FF to crash within a
couple of minutes of usage.
An install note shown by pkg_add would be very helpful. That I also
recommend for the workarounds when it comes to distorted pictures.
On 07/24/13 16:04, Landry Breuil wrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 08:47:11AM -0400, Scott McEachern wrote:
On 07/24/13 05:48, James Griffin wrote:
The crashes i've experiebced have been only since i installed some
extensions/plugins from Mozilla. I've removed them and the browser
is much better again. I don't know if anyone else has noticed
this. my ulimit -d is: 524288 I will increase it to to test and
see if it helps. I have to say, though, i've been using FF on
-current since last December and it's been pretty good. Crashes
have been few and only rencently.
I used to have firefox crash on a daily basis, usually when I opened
too many tabs in sites like IMDb, or especially, gmail. Without
fail, opening a gmail tab would crash ffx and after that it wouldn't
crash right away, but became painful to use.
I also run about 14 addons, including adblockplus, noscript,
ghostery, requestpolicy, etc.
That was with a stock data size of 512M.
Then one day, a long time ago, someone else complained of ffx
crashes and landry@, again, asked what happens with a data size of
2G?
I tried it, and miracle of miracles, no more ffx crashes. Gmail
works just fine, I could open IMDb tabs to my heart's content, plus
a bunch of others. I currently have about 20 tabs open in ffx to
various sites (including gmail and IMDb), plus all my addons
running, and I don't remember the last time ffx crashed on me.
For me, the real question is whether the default user data size
shouldn't be increased in this day and age of modern ("bloated", if
you will) browsers.
That point has been a long-standing discussion among developers, and
a consensus hasn't been reached yet. Note that iirc, chromium wrapper
automatically bumps ulimit -d at startup to workaround such issues..
Still, firefox should properly backoff in situations of constrained
memory instead of exploding in flight.
Landry
