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recently Firefox tab crashes

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In the last 2 weeks or so, started having instances of tab crashing. Have refreshed Firefox. Problem occurs in troubleshoot mode. Have submitted crash reports.

In the last 2 weeks or so, started having instances of tab crashing. Have refreshed Firefox. Problem occurs in troubleshoot mode. Have submitted crash reports.

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In the address bar, type about:crashes<enter>. Note: If any reports do not have BP- in front of the numbers/letters, click it to submit them.

The crash report is several pages of data. We need the report numbers to see the whole report.

Using your mouse, mark the most recent 7 - 10 Submitted crash reports, and copy them. Now go to the reply box and paste them in.

Please, Do not post a screenshot ! !

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For more help on crash reports, see; https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-crashes-asking-support

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bp-30b0295c-bf70-4af0-bd62-20a3b0210626 6/26/2021, 12:53 PM View bp-24a659f9-10ba-4292-8ccb-123cd0210626 6/26/2021, 12:53 PM View bp-79a9ccb0-4a96-40dd-8c3b-5dace0210626 6/26/2021, 12:53 PM View bp-a804ecb7-c2df-4206-b719-37b490210626 6/26/2021, 12:53 PM View

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The crash reports are OOM (out of memory) reports where not enough contiguous free memory is available.

  • MOZ_CRASH Reason (Sanitized) : [unhandlable oom] Failed not allocate new chunk during GC
Available Page File : 597,700,608 bytes (597.7 MB)
Available Physical Memory : 6,699,831,296 bytes (6.7 GB)
System Memory Use Percentage : 60
OOM Allocation Size : 1,048,576 bytes (1.05 MB)

Do you let Windows handle the Page file automatically or have you set a fixed size for the Windows Page File ?

  • Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Performance -> Settings

If you use a fixed size for the page file then try the automatic setting and let Windows handle the page file automatically.

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Changed the page file size to be managed automatically. That's all well and good, but I wonder why the problem recently started happening.

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Maybe you are running other software that uses a lot of memory. You can possibly check this in the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+ESC).