[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 32bit future

[James Carlson]

On 02/01/2018 11:58 AM, Al Slater wrote:
> On 25/01/18 18:57, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Of course, with the elimination of Netscape plugin support, there's little
>> reason to still use a 32-bit version of Firefox.
> 
> Apart from the fact that 32bit versions die before gobbling *all* of
> your system RAM.  I find this "feature" very useful!
> 

I suggest using "ulimit -v" or, if you want to get really fancy,
"newtask" with a project configured to have the specific resource
controls you want.

I don't think that compilation model is a good proxy for resource
limits.  It's too blunt, and has too many unnecessary side-effects.

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