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This website seems to trigger firefox to consume enormous amounts of RAM on my machine

Issue Filed on Bugzilla

This website causes firefox 75.0 to consume enormous amounts of RAM on my machine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/apr/20/coronavirus-map-of-the-us-latest-cases-state-by-state

I can't say exactly how much RAM it would consume if it completed because I have to kill Firefox after it gets to about 16GB.

This is the first time I've caught a repeatable version of this problem. But I have had several previous cases where Firefox 75 goes completely RAM crazy.

Posted Apr 23, 2020, 2:12 AM UTC

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nextbern:nightly: | :fenixNightly: | 🐧 | :android:•

That is this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627453

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Ah - thanks. That avoids me wondering whether to create a bugzilla account and try to master the intricacies of creating a report.

My suspicion is that this problem happens to varying degrees a lot with FF75. I have caught it climbing up to 4GB for no good reason and then backing off again. But those cases are not reproducible so far.

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gnarly:nightly: macOS•

Looks like a short term workaround is to open about:config and set gfx.content.azure.backends to skia. No idea if that will have any other side effects.

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RaisrBlade:nightly:•

Same thing here! Memory leak with their map service?

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