Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2025-08-16 18:58:03 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Many sites use JS that keeps running even when the tab is "inactive".
> Sometimes it has memory leaks. Install New Tab Suspender v2 or a similar
> inactive tab suspender.
> 
> Also go into about:config and set browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory.

Thanks. The Mozilla documentation

  https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/unload-inactive-tabs-save-system-memory-firefox

is confusing. It says: "If you want to disable the Tab Unloading
feature, you can set the preference browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory
to false in the Firefox Configuration Editor (about:config page)."
So I thought that it was true by default.

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