Huge memory leak from Firefox and Flash Player causes computer to slow to a halt

[pfc]

I don't use Firefox Nightly. Firefox regular works great for me with 1GB RAM.

You should mention that you use Nightly in the OP, or post about it in some Firefox Nightly forum where other people are using it instead of here where most aren't.

When I started to use Nightly, FF was mid-20. Therefore everything that could have happened to me, will happen sooner or later, since everything that goes to FF on nightly channel, will be available one day on release channel. And the bigger the number FF has, the more minor the differences between nightly and release become.

ps. FF devs don't give a **** about a problem that exists but only few dozen people have the will/knowledge to sign in the bugzilla site and inform them that they're too experiencing the problem. Sad but true.

Even Youtube.

YT recently switched to HTML5. Vids are non-flash by default.

 

[ninaholic37]

For me, if I switch the link from "www" to "m" it uses Gecko Media Player in Linux.

Like this:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1560175997572903

Turns into this:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1560175997572903

Then I click on it, and it turns into this and plays:
https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net...=d0d8a0cefbe97eb61e90650aec7ccec2&oe=54D9E357

Much smoother than it would play in Flash too.

I just tried this on another distro (without Gecko) and they open with VLC. Nice.