Closed Bug 1142601 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Firefox consumes 10 GB memory on quit and crashes afterwards with EFF "Privacy Badger" add-on

Categories

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Extension Compatibility
Version:
36 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: sskyman, Unassigned)

References

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Details

(Keywords: crash, crashreportid)

Crash Data

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 Build ID: 20150306140254 Steps to reproduce: I'm using Firefox 36.0.1 on Kubuntu 14.04.2 LTS with three open windows and around 2700 to 2800 open tabs. Actual results: Since version 35.0.1 Firefox crashes when I select File->Quit or use the shortcut. Before it chrashes it consume around 10 GB (normal operation is around 3-4 GB due to my big number of open tabs). It also takes a lot of time (last time I checked, I killed the instance after 35 minutes of "shutting down") to quit/crash Firefox after first click on "Quit" Problem didn't appear on previous versions. Crash reports: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/a6b53f6f-6d48-4922-9a89-f635b2150223 https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/b4e2c0c7-2974-494a-8f96-d51872150303 https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/79a27a66-0812-41c9-88b0-d08a82150304 https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/11a3d722-6d0e-4163-9497-72b942150305 https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/e580c5e0-8756-463c-b4a4-2bd382150307
Severity: normal → critical
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Crash Signature: [@ mozilla::::RunWatchdog ]
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: crash, crashreportid, regression, regressionwindow-wanted
The report from Firefox 35 https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/a6b53f6f-6d48-4922-9a89-f635b2150223 shows an extension (probably) calling into libDANEcore-Linux-x86_64.so, which crashes. Firefox 36 is designed to crash [@ mozilla::::RunWatchdog ] if the shutdown takes too long. The main thread is running some JS (which caused a GC) at the point of crash, might be due to an extension, may be not. 2700 open tabs plus a extensions is a combination not very well suited for a useful bug report... I suggest you do https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-extensions-themes-to-fix-problems If this is indeed a regression (i.e. you can reproduce with the same exact set of extensions and tabs) on 35.0.1 and can't reproduce on an earlier version, you might try hunting down the regression window (no-one else can do it) to see if anything interesting comes up. I'm afraid nothing else can happen here.
Status: NEW → UNCONFIRMED
Ever confirmed: false
Flags: needinfo?(sskyman)
Keywords: crashreportid, regression, regressionwindow-wanted
Summary: Firefox consumes 10 GB memory on quit and crashes afterwards → Firefox consumes 10 GB memory on quit and crashes afterwards with lots of tabs and extensions
@Nickolay: Thanks for your explanations and time. I was able to probably track down the problem to the extentsion "Privacy Badger" from the EFF (https://www.eff.org/de/node/73969). It seems that this plugin checked every tab at start time. After uninstalling the extensions the startup was a lot more faster. At the moment it seems like a extension problem to me. I will report upstream to Privacy Badger. For the moment I close this as "resolved invalid".
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
The bug report at Privacy Badger: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/issues/333
Flags: needinfo?(sskyman)
Great, thanks for figuring this out!
Component: Untriaged → Extension Compatibility
Summary: Firefox consumes 10 GB memory on quit and crashes afterwards with lots of tabs and extensions → Firefox consumes 10 GB memory on quit and crashes afterwards with EFF "Privacy Badger" add-on
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