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Firefox 93 Might Unload Tabs to Help Reduce Out of Memory Crashes

         

engine

3:48 pm on Oct 6, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Firefox 93, available from October 5, has some additional improvements, one of which is meant to help help reduce out of memory crashes: When Firefox detects system memory critically low, on Windows, it'll automatically unload tabs based upon their last access time, memory usage, or other aspects. So, if you return to a tab and find it is no longer loaded, you will know why.

There's also a new referrer tracking protection, and blocking of download that rely on insecure connections, amongst other improvements.

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graeme_p

4:21 pm on Oct 6, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Is unloading on low memory a new feature or enabled by default? There is a browser.tabs.unLoadOnLowMemory in earlier versions (on Linux, at least) and its clear that it does the same on Android.

engine

5:05 pm on Oct 6, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Perhaps it worked well in linux and mozilla decided to roll it out on windows

graeme_p

5:58 pm on Oct 6, 2021 (gmt 0)

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It seems to be disabled by default on Linux (using an ESR version) and enabled by default on Android (using the Fennec build from F-Droid)