precise 64bit firefox 11 with latest adobe flash has HUGE memory leak

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i know that adobe flash is kind of a dead technology but when i have 2 tabs open and gigabytes of RAM at hand and and still i manage to run into OOM, so something is going wrong with flash i suppose.

so after my system became responsive again i listed the memory usage via top and firefox takes 4.1g RES and 5645m VIRT memory and that only with ONE youtube video open and loaded. the funny thing is that the plugin-container process (firefox child process) only takes up 68m of ram only. so why does flash eat the memory that belongs to firefox? isn't the container process some kind of facility to handle the plugin?

since i wasn't even watching the video the oom killer just terminated another process and i still had the joy of inspecting the memory usage at that high level.

so that's why i suppose there is a bug / memory leak somewhere.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. This bug was reported some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.

Does anyone still see a problem related to the one that was reported when using currently supported versions of Firefox and Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

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[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]