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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by wott on Thursday January 16, 2020 @03:30PM (#22068543)
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.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by wesgarland on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:57AM (#22074628)
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`....

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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by toyg on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:43AM (#22074955)
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.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by wesgarland on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:20PM (#22079464)
Amazing how it happens neither with Chrome nor Safari. Any idea how they solved that problem?
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