Comment 33 for bug 111299

Boris, if there is a way to do what you suggest above that would be great. Federico's patch to discard images after a specified amount of time does increase stability on the thin clients, but it still does not prevent abuse of pixmap storage that can possibly crash the Xserver. A cap on the maximum amount able to be used would be a better fix. But if Federico's patch could be backported to a current release of Firefox we would at least have a solution for the interim.

I think the bug I started of 395260 is definitely different that the reason this bug was originally started. But a resolution to this bug could also help bug 395260. I would however still love to see a solution that could provide a user settable option in about:config to limit allocation for pixmap storage.

I am not sure who the actual developers are of Firefox and if they know about this problem. If anyone knows please help make sure they are aware of this.

Thanks,
Jim