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Something happened to me recently when I was attempting to browse a Gopher site via Firefox...I opened the site, and that site opened another tab to the same site, and so on recursively every ~200mS or so until my computer's RAM was saturated. I had to force terminate Firefox. It was funny because it reminded me of the type of malicious WaReZ that you would see in the 90s.


I also had this happen trying to open a PDF in Firefox recently.


It will happen if:

  about:preferences#applications ->
    Portable Document Format (PDF) ->
      Use firefox
is set. A fix is to set

  about:preferences#applications ->
    Portable Document Format (PDF) ->
      Preview in firefox
The problem can be caused (in Ubuntu 16.04) by selecting Firefox as the system default for PDF viewing.




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