Firefox gigantic leaks happen to me on Windows too. Depending on the mood, it ends with a crash or with Windows warning me that it will kill some processes if that keeps going on.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70
by wesgarland on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:57AM
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Happens on mac, too.
Some mornings I'm beachballing for my whole first coffee. Eventually I just wind up power cycling the mac if I can't open a shell prompt with which to `pkill -9 plugin-container`....
I'm on Mac too and I've never seen anything like this. The odd tab will crash (particularly after I started using containers extensively and more than one adblocker/anti-tracker), but that's it.
> pkill -9 plugin-container
Ahhh, ok - that's not FF, that's a crap plugin (likely Flash). It's the browser equivalent of blaming Windows when a crap taiwanese driver gets it stuck. You could try uninstalling all that crap.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70
by wesgarland on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:20PM
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Amazing how it happens neither with Chrome nor Safari. Any idea how they solved that problem?
Sadly, one of the drawbacks of opensource is that people can take your code and butcher it, and users will blame you.