Improving Firefox on Windows stability with this one weird trick

The first computer I owned shipped with 128 KiB of RAM and to this day I'm still jarred by the idea that applications can run out of memory given that even 15-year-old machines often shipped with 4 GiB of memory. And yet it's one of the most common causes of instability experienced by users and in the case of Firefox the biggest source of crashes on Windows.

A detailed technical explanation of why Windows's memory management - and only Windows's - is causing so many crashes for Firefox, as well as a solution they found to address the problem.