[tor-bugs] #24398 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Plugin-container exhausts memory leading to thrash and/or crash on Linux

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#24398: Plugin-container exhausts memory leading to thrash and/or crash on Linux
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 Reporter:  gk                                |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  defect                            |         Status:
                                              |  needs_review
 Priority:  Medium                            |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser          |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                            |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-crash, TorBrowserTeam201712R  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by mcs):

 Kathy and I do not always see the memory growth, but when running with
 `--verbose`` we see many lines like the following:
  newChannelForURL at resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js ->
 resource://devtools/shared/DevToolsUtils.js:567:12
 and then a few like this:
  console.error: Protocol error (unknownError): too much recursion

 So I think we are reproducing the bug. We did not do anything special; if
 you load a page you should have a plugin-container process (assuming
 multiprocess mode is working).

 We are going to rebuild with the proposed fix in place and see if the
 problem goes away.

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