Description of problem: Firefox will suddenly start consuming 100% of the CPU. This happens from time to time when there are many windows & tabs open. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Seen on firefox-1.0.8-1.4.1, but also on previous versions. How reproducible: Frequent! Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run Firefox with lots of windows & tabs open 2.Find something really important that needs web access now... 3. Actual results: CPU load hits the roof, firefox starts being *supremely* slow (20+minutes to refresh a page on an AMD64 3000+) Expected results: Web browsing... Additional info: I played with gdb to see if I could track this down. When it goes wrong, it seems to spend its time in js_MarkGCThing(). Turning off Javascript *seems* to have made the problem go away - but it's too early to say for sure.
OK, turning off Javascript hasn't fixed it. Firefox stayed up for about a week (that's about 2 orders of magnitude improvement), but still fell over in what appears to be the same manner. So - has anyone except me actually looked at this yet?
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It's hard to say wbether this bug has been fixed or not - Firefox uses up so much RAM these days that I have to kill it & restart much more often than I used to. I was hoping to get a response before the bug was closed, but that has not been possible. Looks like we'll throw a little more feedback info in the bin :-(