1160542 - Memory usage keeps growing in Firefox - GStreamer memory leak?

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[Geoffrey De Belie (Smile4ever)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0
Build ID: 20150404130542

Steps to reproduce:

1) Disable Flash. This will trigger the HTML5 player. (I also have disabled Cisco H264, so it uses WebM. DRM support is disabled too)
2) Go to YouTube, open a video and play it :)
3) If Auto Play is off, put it on



Actual results:

The memory increases by each video viewed to enormous sizes. 2 gigabyte of RAM usage after a few hours is not unusual with Auto Play.

According to PulseAudio, the audio streams are kept open instead of being closed after a video has been viewed.


Expected results:

Firefox should close GStreamer connections after a video has been played. This has been an issue for many Firefox releases for me.

This can also be something else than GStreamer, but it's the only thing I think of myself.

Comment 1

[Geoffrey De Belie (Smile4ever)]

My custom user agent was on while posting this issue. It should have been
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0

Comment 2

[Geoffrey De Belie (Smile4ever)]

Weird, now it works like it should..

Comment 3

[Gingerbread Man]

Should the issue resurface, please test in a brand new profile.
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

If the problem persists, attach memory leak information as detailed at
https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/QA/Bug_writing_guidelines#For_specific_types_of_bugs

(In reply to Geoffrey Db from comment #0)
> 1) Disable Flash. This will trigger the HTML5 player. (I also have disabled
> Cisco H264, so it uses WebM.

The OpenH264 plug-in is only used for WebRTC, so it has nothing to do with HTML5 video playback.
Right-click the video and choose Stats for Nerds. Check the Mime Type row for the video format.