Re: More memory

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On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 08:40 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

I used to rely on this behaviour, but it frequently didn't work
properly. I don't know if it's because I use KDE rather than Gnome, but
the extension has proved more reliable though still not perfect.

poc
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