Loading this page will cause my memory to climb so quickly that the only information I can gather is how
much was it had increased by (over 1 gig) before the display froze.

http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2010/07/go-on-hiatus.html?showComment=1280261814735#c8044514998112112682

Not sure how to isolate processes in this situation, sorry :-/  I was able once, with xkill, to close the
browser just as this started, but memory kept shooting up and I couldn't confirm, in the moments before
everything froze like always, whether the conkeror process had actually stopped (and this was happening
independently of it) or not.

Using Conkeror 0.9.4 and xulrunner 8.0; happens in safe-mode; doesn't happen with Firefox.

same result with this site

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/

I had this issue; also with http://opencores.org/

However, on Debian 7.8 (AMD64), this was fixed by upgrading from xulrunner-10.0 to xulrunner-24.0.