On 31/10/2023 01:56, Van Snyder wrote:
Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have memory leaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt-F4, but with "kill -9", so that it reopens everything when I restart it, my memory usage immediately drops by 75%. Then it creeps back up.
It may be leaks in JavaScript code running by particular web pages, not Firefox fault.
Firefox has the "restore previous session" feature. My expectation is that it should work more reliable than "kill -9". The latter may cause inconsistency in data saved to disk. I see nothing wrong with "close window" (Alt+F4). An alternative is "quit" that closes all windows at once.
