1518765 - Memory leak after a while

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 1386177

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Description

[Faraday Night]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

Browsing the internet with around 12 tabs, some of them are on YouTube.

Actual results:

Firefox using all memory available on the computer and making everything lag. This happened on older versions too. This issue randomly appears once a month.

Expected results:

Firefox not using all memory

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Do you have a way to reproduce this issue?
Do you have any extensions installed?

Comment 2

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

This bug can be dupe of bug #1386177.

Comment 3

[Faraday Night]

(In reply to Sylvestre Ledru [:sylvestre] from comment #1)

Do you have a way to reproduce this issue?
Do you have any extensions installed?

• Sadly no but the issue linked by Virtual_ManPL sounds reasonable.
• Yes, uBlock Origin, CanvasBlocker, Google search link fix, Google Analytics Opt-Out Add-on, I don't care about cookies.