140622 - On start, Mozilla continuously allocates memory until system crashes

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Cory Kim]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)
BuildID:    20020418

As soon as I launch Mozilla, my system begins thrashing. Mozilla never finishes 
launching. If I check my Task Manager, I can see that the mozilla process is 
allocating about 1 MB each second, and continues to do so until my system 
crashes. I have observed this identical behavior in one other application, this 
was Norton Antivirus 2000, which is known to be incompatible with XP.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Mozilla
2.
3.

Actual Results:  System thrashes. Other programs work, but slowly. Eventually 
the system complains that virtual memory is too low (I have 288MB RAM 
installed).

Expected Results:  Launch

I used to be able to run Netscape 6 just fine. When I first installed Mozilla 
on this system, which was about 2 months ago, I had this problem immediately. 
Once it happened, I was no longer able to run Netscape 6 either.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
Please run "mozilla -profilemanager" and create a new profile.

Comment 2

[Cory Kim]

Creating a new profile resolves the problem. Thanks! So, is this a bug?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> worksforme

There are some problems with old NS6.x profiles.....