Description of Problem: Galeon chews up all memory on large downloads. Trying to DL three ISOs and it crapped out after ~1.5GB total when it chewed up all main and VM. HD thrashes, everything else drags arse. What makes it stranger is X got up to 101MB at the same time while ~no~ window functions were being performed. I've replicated this (with the wierd X behavior) twice. Out of trying twice. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): galeon-1.2.0-7 XFree86-4.2.0-8 How Reproducible: Two out of two. Not trying again. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Galeon and go DL really big files (500+ MBs). 2. Watch Galeon grow and grow. 3. System goes *slllooowwwwww* 4. Run Top again, point and laugh. Actual Results: Galeon grows, eventually X grows, things get ugly. Expected Results: Proper DLed files without hurting my system. Additional Information: I would love to use wget but some authentication schemes dont feed well into http:// URLs...
CCing to Mike Harris in case he knows of a X/Galeon interaction that made X grow as such.
Sounds like this mozilla bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91795 it's in the 1.0 branch.
Fixed in rawhide.