1032737 - opening new pages by command line behaves strange (hanging/memory leaking?)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[geert.verschueren]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140605174243

Steps to reproduce:

I have a script that opens pages that I need to check on a regular basis.

the vbscript/commandline command is simply

shell.run quote & "c:\program files\mozilla firefox\firefox" & quote & " -new-tab " & link,1,0 


Actual results:

instead of opening the tabs immediatly firefox seems to freeze.

in the taskmanager on windows I can see that for every url a new firefox.exe is opened and hanging.

I also see the memory usage going up fast even before a new tab appears and the CPU peaks too.

When I'm lucky and it doesn't reach 100% memory usage the tabs appear after a while and the firefox.exe's go away.

When it hits 100% the computer hangs and after a while gets back to normal and only a few tabs get loaded.

it seems that some scripts of currently loaded tabs also get in a loop and I need to stop them when the computer becomes responsive again.


Expected results:

It should load the tabs quickly like it did in v10 or something.

I can't verify since when this is happening but it's already a while and it's happening on 2 machines so it's not a single machine issue.

I even added pauses between the tab opening but that doesn't seem to help either.

I currently changed the execution line from

,1,0 to ,1,1

then it waits till the new firefox.exe process has ended before launching another one.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

geert, can you use the nightly builds to find the regression range of the first nightly where it first starts to fail?

Comment 2

[Michelle Funches - QA]

@Reporter: Please confirm this is fixed for you.
If it is not fixed please state your current operating system and Firefox version.
Also please add if you applied Nightly as requested in Comment 1.

Comment 3

[Michelle Funches - QA]

Closing this as incomplete due to inactivity and lack of response from the
reporter. Feel free to reopen the bug if the issue still reproduces on a
current build.