Bug 246818

Summary:	Firefox huge memory leak on automatic page reload
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sander Vermin <sander>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	7	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, hejian.he, mcepl
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	httphttp://willem.neostrada.nl/avsh/lansoverzicht.php
Whiteboard:	firefox3INSUFFICIENT_DATAmassClosing
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Description Sander Vermin 2007-07-05 07:56:14 UTC

Description of problem:
Firefox leak memory of a certain page. This page reloads every 5 seconds. On
each reload firefox gain 15mb of memory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Iam using the latest version (2.0.0.4)


How reproducible:

follow this link: http://willem.neostrada.nl/avsh/lansoverzicht.php


Steps to Reproduce:
1. vist link
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Actual results:
firefox gains 15 mb of memory each 5 seconds on pc reload

Expected results:
pc starts to swap

Additional info:
none

Comment 1 Rafał Polak 2007-07-27 22:02:49 UTC

I confirm this but it is not only Fedora related. It looks like general Firefox
bug. I tested it under openSUSE 10.2 with Firefox 2.0.0.5 and after few minutes
Firefox memory usage increased from 70MB to 500MB.

Comment 2 Jian He 2008-01-08 08:08:12 UTC

I confirm this but does not know how to debug it. Can somebody give a hint?

Comment 3 Christopher Aillon 2008-01-09 12:34:02 UTC

Firefox 3 which is in rawhide now has fixed many leaks.  Can someone see if this
is fixed there?

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2008-02-21 22:35:43 UTC

At this point, we're going to only be taking security fixes and major stability
fixes into this release of Fedora.  However, we still want to ensure the bug is
fixed in the next version.  We'd appreciate if you could test Firefox 3,
available at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html or now shipping
as the default in Fedora rawhide and provide feedback as to whether it still
exists so we can file a ticket upstream to try to fix it in Firefox 3 before it
is released.

Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2008-02-21 22:36:53 UTC

At this point, we're going to only be taking security fixes and major stability
fixes into this release of Fedora.  However, we still want to ensure the bug is
fixed in the next version.  We'd appreciate if you could test Firefox 3,
available at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html or now shipping
as the default in Fedora rawhide and provide feedback as to whether it still
exists so we can file a ticket upstream to try to fix it in Firefox 3 before it
is released.

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2008-04-09 14:05:38 UTC

Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to
investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the
information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not
reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the
reporter's distribution.

Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest
update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be
reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional
information.

Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.

[This is a mass-closing request, if you think that this bug shouldn't be closed,
please, reopen with additional information.]