1430529 - Firefox frequently OOMs on 1GB Android 4.4 device [Regression]

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Clemens Eisserer]

Attachment: Screenshot_2018-01-15-08-55-58.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180114100259

Steps to reproduce:

Opened m.youtube.com in Firefox 58b15 to listen to music videos on my Android 4.4.4 / 1GB / Snapdragon 410 device - and started the playback of a music video.


Actual results:

Even after a clean reboot of the phone, firefox beta soon consumes > 350MB and shortly after is killed by out-of-memory.

This is a regression, I first experienced this behaviour in the last 1-2 weeks. Before everything worked as expected.


Expected results:

Firefox simply shouldn't consume > 350mb with just a single page (m.youtube.com) open.

Comment 1

[Clemens Eisserer]

Update: I initially thought this is linked to youtube video playback - but it seems to occur also during normal browsing.
When opening heise.de and scrolling up&down a few times, Firefox is terminated within a minute or two.

Comment 2

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

Snorp, can you add this to your triage? By the way, if there's a better way to notify you to add to your team's triage, please let me know (e.g. maybe we should have a new component)?

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Closing per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

Contact :susheel if you think this bug should be re-opened