254789 - Excessive memory usage when extensions are installing

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[winmodem]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040807 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040807 Firefox/0.9.1+

After instaling , or while installing extensions, Firefox will occasionally try
to allocate a lot of memory/swap file, until the disk space is full and Windows
crashes or Firefox quits with blue screen . 

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install various extensions in a unique session
2. Close and open Firefox
3. Firefox will install the extensions, but may crash

Actual Results:  
In ~30% of the time, Firefox tried to "eat" memory, causing the Windows swap
file to grow until the hard drive was full.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have installed the extensions cleanly.

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

-> Trunk
-> Extension manager

reporter, please wait until the porting of branch fixes to trunk is complete,
then try again. Firefox development was focused on the branch for quite a while.

Comment 2

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Reporter - can you still reproduce this?

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Reporter disappeared - resolving WFM.