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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Hungry firefox
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 17:07:46 -0500
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On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 03:28:43 -0400
Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:

> 150401 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:34:19 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> >> Occasionally, I've had javascripts running away with the CPU,
> >> which stops when I kill FF & restart it.  That's just bad JS
> >> programming.
> >
> > Do you have to kill the whole browser and not just the offending
> > tab? That's just bad programming...
> 
> Do you use FF yourself ? -- if there's only  1  tab open & you kill
> it, it kills the whole FF job too.  

To change that, enter "about:config" in the address bar, dismiss the
warning if you haven't already, then search for
browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab and toggle that pref to false.