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tetranymous · 6 months ago

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Does anyone know of a way to force a memory limit on Firefox for Android?

All of the methods I've seen are only for desktop (mobile doesn't have about:config) or people saying that you should leave the memory management to the OS (clearly not helpful) or people complaining about slowness or storage space or browser crashes (irrelevant, clogging up search results) or confusing ram with internal storage (who even decided to call internal storage memory in the first place??? As if RAM didn't already mean random access MEMORY).

I'm getting sick of Firefox suddenly using up all of the RAM and causing my entire phone to hard crash and reboot 😭 (not just a tab or browser crash).

My phone's fairly old (I've gotta upgrade soon due to the 3g shutoff and lack of VOLTE support) but that's still a while away and it's only Firefox that's causing this to happen, everything else runs fine (plus I'd still like to use this thing even when I upgrade!). Can't mess about in root until I upgrade because this era of phone punishes you if you do (and I don't want to break something in there and be out of a phone for several months! Again!)

#tetranymous.txt #Firefox #Firefox for Android #You'd think it'd check requested ram against free ram instead of trying to access memory that doesn't exist. YOU'D THINK.#Currently checking if any extensions have memory leaks #And if that doesn't work I may have to switch to something like fennec instead (has about:config)#Assuming that it doesn't pull a revanced and lock me out because of my OS version #Then I'd be forced to use *shudders* browser (yes that's really what it's called)#It shipped w the phone so it should work without issue. But it's... Really bad.#I've already tried reducing tabs. Still happens. I don't run it when other programs are open. Still happens. Thermals are fine!#I'm running out of things I can try :/

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