Memory for videos not freed

[ManDay]

Perhaps this is something in gstreamer or webkit, but I've noticed that midori doesn't free the memory taken for HTML5 videos on youtube, even after the video is closed (tab is closed or new address is loaded). Needless to mention, after watching a few longer videos midori first takes over most of my memory and then slowly starts claiming all my swap space, too.

[gue5t gue5t (gue5t)]

Trying this on a local video it definitely doesn't leak, as I can watch e.g. several-gigabyte movies in the <video> element. I'll try some more scenarios such as a local webserver and youtube soon.

[gue5t gue5t (gue5t)]

Testing some more, it looks like memory is leaked but not as catastophically as I was expecting. midori --plain does it even with file:// videos, so it looks like a webkit bug unfortunately.

[veyvr (chris-std)]

This should be a upstream bug, see https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109350
According to Philippe Normand (GTK/WebKit developer) this should be fixed in more recent versions of webkitgtk (version 1.12+). I can not currently test that, maybe someone else can.

[ManDay (manday)]

I can, and Webkit (aka MemoryleakKit and RegressionKit) hasn't improved an inch since I last checked. Unsurprisingly, given how little attention these guys pay to quality assurance. Anyway, agreed, upstream. I wouldn't get my hopes up that this will be fixed within our lifetime. Webkit's official slogan is "if we ignore it, it's fine".