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See Restore previous session - Configure when Firefox shows your most recent tabs and windows for details.ДЇirefox may grind to a halt due to operating system issues, such as a pending Windows update, that can be resolved by restarting your computer.Дisable resource consuming extensions and themesД®xtensions and themes can cause Firefox to use more system resources than it normally would. You can configure Firefox to save your tabs and windows so that when you start it again, you can start where you left off. A workaround for this is to periodically restart Firefox.

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Update Firefox to the latest release.ДЇirefox may use more system resources if it's left open for long periods of time. The latest Firefox version may include performance improvements.

13 Use additional troubleshooting tools.

4 Disable resource consuming extensions and themes.

THe above example is only for driver, add the same for webelement if you need. You can add sleep before each action using listeners from selenium import webdriverДЇrom webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManagerДЇrom import EventFiringWebDriver, AbstractEventListenerДef before_navigate_to(self, url, driver):Дef find_element_by_id(self, id_, driver):Дef after_navigate_to(self, url, driver):Дriver = EventFiringWebDriver(tempdriver, MyListener()) In addition add driver.close() this wont mostly remove the browser session, if it does try opening url in different tab and closing the previous tab in every 100 iteration or something. This results in firefox using more RAM to serve the fast demand as read write operation is faster from RAM than harddisk This results in firefox storing files in harddisk than RAM, If you don't use sleep, the selenium action on the browser will be really fast than firefox could handle. In script try to add implicit wait of 3 or 4 seconds, this causes all commands to wait for 4 seconds making the scraping process slower if elements are not found or completed.ДЄlso add sleep after while and for loop: while time.time() < t_end : I can see you are using firefox profile so what you can do is configure your profile to use less memory by following the recommended settings in firefox and then use that Joblib.dump(returned_dict, './returned_dict_' + str(i))Д®nvironment: VPS 4GB RAM - CentOS 8 - Python 3.8 - Firefox84Beta - GeckDriver 0.28.0 - Headless scraping Scrape = driver.find_element_by_xpath('****').text

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Os.system('free -h & sysctl vm.drop_caches=3 & free -h')

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If you can help me find the solution to be able to scrape for at least 24 hours that would be cool of you.ДЄ bit of code binary = FirefoxBinary('/opt/firefox/firefox')ДЇirefox_profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()ДЇirefox_t_preference('', True)Дriver=webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='/usr/bin/geckodriver',options=options, firefox_binary=binary, firefox_profile=firefox_profile)Дriver.get('https:********************************') I scoured the net and found various solutions which did not work.

In detail, the longer the script scrapes, the more memory Firefox occupies increases.

The crash is caused by the occupation of firefox in the RAM. I have a python script which scrapes iteratively a dynamic website with selenium using the geckodriver.Дuring 2 hours it manages to take all of the data that I told to recover and at the end of these 2 hours, it begins to slow down and eventually crash. I have been looking for a solution to my problem for several days. Reposted cause by : Not enought desired behavior

Firefox taking up too much memory