Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

Firefox 3.0 beta 1 fills my available memory

Bug #164375 reported by mrAshley
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I downloaded the new beta Firefox from Mozilla (firefox-3.0b1.tar.bz2) and installed it to /opt. I ran it only a short while, less than a minute, and it went crazy on me. My hard drive thrashed as it filled about 500 megs of swap file before I could kill -15 it. I had to go to a virtual terminal to get a command line to even use my computer it had purged all my buffers making the GUI impossible to use. I was on maybe three popular web pages. This doesn't seem like rational behaviour at all.

Disclaimer: I realise this isn't specifically Ubuntu related as it's not a supported package, but after googling briefly this was the only place I could find to report my bug.

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António Lima (amrlima) wrote :

Changing to invalid

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Invalid
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António Lima (amrlima) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug. As you said Firefox 3.0 beta is not supported by Ubuntu. You can report this bug at mozzila's bugzila https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ You will need to register an account for that. Thanks!

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