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Ubuntu shuts down/halts if more than 10 tabs are open in Firefox3: Memory

Asked by Nabin

I love Ubuntu, but sometimes I open 20 tabs or so in Firefox3 ( just by chance...) and it suddenly shuts down. This makes me very upset because I loose my unsaved works.
Can I prevent it?

What causes it to shut down or come to sudden halt? I think Firefox is responsible for it, because the same thing happens when I load heavily scripted pages.
Any ideas, please?
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Ubuntu 8.X running on Inspiron 6400 with 1.73GHz Pentium Laptop with 2GB RAM.
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Thanks!
Nabin

(Side note: Is this OS responsible for rapid drop in efficiency of my battery? // I think not.)

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Irving Duran (blacknred0) said : 		#1

have you tried to use a different web browser to see if that happens the same thing?
to me, it happens kind of the same thing, but the difference is that i could have only three tabs and sometime firefox decides to crash just for the heck of it

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Nabin (nabinkm) said : 		#2

blacknred0:

Thanks for the note.
I do use Opera, it works fine. But the problem with Opera is live rss. While Firefox can load live RSS from BBC news (say: http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml ) and we can have them open in multiple Firefox tabs; while in Opera, I do not have that facility.

I can import saved bookmarks (not live one), but can not have live rss to open in the multiple tabs at once.
(In opera, I have the facility of opening saved bookmarks in tabs by clicking in "open all folder items" in tabs: not for live rss. )

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Best Irving Duran (blacknred0) said : 		#3

Nabin,

i would suggest to you, to reinstall firefox and see if there was a problem on the installation and if that doesn't work then i would report a bug. because it seems that you have plenty of memory and i really do not think that memory would be the problem. unless you are compiling a really big app :P.

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Nabin (nabinkm) said : 		#4

Thanks Irving Duran, that solved my question.