Memory leak

[gabrimonfa]

Binary package hint: firefox

I usually keep a lot of tabs opened, 30 or 40, for example.

After some hours of browsing firefox uses a lot of memory, even 250 MBs.

If I kill the app, e.g. doing a killall firefox-bin, and then I reopen Firefox I'm able to reload exactly all the tabs. When loading all the pages has finished, firefox uses much less memory than before, usually about 120 MBs , that is quite a reasonable values with so many opened tabs. But after some hours, even with little browsing, this value increase significantly again.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 4 15:34:35 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.4+1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux LDP023 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Wed May 23 01:46:23 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9)]

Thank you for your bug report. I think this issue has been reported already so I am tagging it as such.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Thank you for taking the time to file this ubg report with us. Closing due to age. If this is still a problem in 3.0.7 please reopen this bug.
Also please reopen with all new information on how to reproduce this bug by giving us step by step instructions.
We also need what happens what is expected to happen.
To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Gino Vincenzini (openmysourcecode)]

please reopen this bug

to reproduce, open about 8 tabs on random blog sites with pictures and flash movies
sit there for about an hour or so
check firefox's new bloated size
reset the browser reopening all the same tabs.... firefox should be a lot smaller in memory and the system should suddenly be a lot more responsive. check it out

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Gino:
Please when reopening bugs set them to incomplete not new.

Please post the output of the following commands:
apt-cache policy firefox firefox-3.5 firefox-3.6
lsb_release -a

Please try sites without flash and see if you can reproduce this.
Also please list ALL extensions themes that you have installed.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Closing the bug as no further information has been provided.