Google discovered major flaws in ANOTHER Chrome extention

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#2 Post by eric52 »

That's swell!
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#3 Post by 8Geee »

Yeah, I read this earlier today. All this is doing is putting focus on NortonAV as "reliable". $$$ sure does strange things to people and entities.
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#4 Post by s243a »

It's all well, and good that they're investigating windows security issues but I would like them to solve some of the memory leak problems with flash. On an older version of Fatdog64, the flash in rockradio.com is freezing my system if left unattended for a few hours. I wonder, is there a way to restrict the amount of ram that a browser can use and automatically kill the process if the browser uses too much ram?

I have a newer version of fatdog64 running on a virtual machine. Since I only gave the virtual machine 2gigs of ram I don't think I'll install chrome on the virtual machine.

Hmmm...I saw a chrome extension mentioned on the hackernews that might help:
http://thehackernews.com/2015/06/chrome ... -fast.html

but I think it only stops idle processes. I also should check that I'm blocking nuisance sites since the memory leaks could be coming from a script that one of their advertisers is running.

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#5 Post by Scooby »

s243a wrote:...
On an older version of Fatdog64, the flash in rockradio.com is freezing my system if left unattended for a few hours. I wonder, is there a way to restrict the amount of ram that a browser can use and automatically kill the process if the browser uses too much ram?
You could check out https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom

I used it with the hardened release of tor-browser that is glutinous for RAM.

It did its job perfectly for me.

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#6 Post by s243a »

Scooby wrote:
s243a wrote:...
On an older version of Fatdog64, the flash in rockradio.com is freezing my system if left unattended for a few hours. I wonder, is there a way to restrict the amount of ram that a browser can use and automatically kill the process if the browser uses too much ram?
You could check out https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom

I used it with the hardened release of tor-browser that is glutinous for RAM.

It did its job perfectly for me.
Thankyou. I'll give it a try :)

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