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firefox-transferables-oom

This small example project does provoke the OOM issue in Firefox. In order to run it, first do an:

sudo npm install -g gulp

in order to install the gulp build tool globally (if you don't have it there already). Then cd into the firefox-transferables-oom directory and run:

npm init

to install the dependencies. Finally, launch a local webserver (port 9000) that hosts the example code by typing in:

gulp webserver

Then open a new Firefox tab, open the development tools panel and go to http://localhost:9000.

The code will spawn a worker and bounce some messages to the worker and back, where each message contains a moderately sized ArrayBuffer (32MB). After a few bounces, Firefox will throw an OOM exception, whereas all other workers will indefinitely bounce the ArrayBuffer back and forth.