results in resident memory rising until desktop becomes unresponsive at around 1GB resident, usage is still increasing (highest I've seen is 1.2GB resident then top becomes unresponsive). At this point either firefox is killed, or xorg hangs.
Confirmed with firefox-3.0.14 and firefox-3.7a1pre nightly.
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090216 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.14 3.7a1pre. en-US.linux- i686.tar. bz2
Build Identifier: firefox-
I'm filing this as a Javascript bug as it seems likely, but the fault may lie elsewhere.
Viewing this URL on a Thinkpad T42p with 1.5GB memory running Ubuntu Jaunty: http:// bbarker. co.uk/animate/ map.php? file=Edinburgh_ to_Holy_ Island_ cycle.gpx
results in resident memory rising until desktop becomes unresponsive at around 1GB resident, usage is still increasing (highest I've seen is 1.2GB resident then top becomes unresponsive). At this point either firefox is killed, or xorg hangs.
Confirmed with firefox-3.0.14 and firefox-3.7a1pre nightly.
I already reported this bug in Ubuntu: https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ firefox- 3.0/+bug/ 429476
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce: bbarker. co.uk/animate/ map.php? file=Edinburgh_ to_Holy_ Island_ cycle.gpx
1.go to http://
2. that's it
3.
Actual Results:
resident memory increases, eventually firefox is killed or desktop hangs
Expected Results:
Chromium uses about 80MB resident memory for the same page.