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> I'm curious to see how aggressive this is.

It's in the config parameter's name: browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory. Boolean, works only on Windows for now.




Any idea when Linux will be supported?

I'm using the Auto Tab Discard extension for now, but having a native way to handle this for Linux users would be great.


Ah man. Hope this makes it to Linux and especially OSX soon!


On Linux, I use cgroups to restrict memory usage of certain applications to prevent them from crashing the whole system.




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