Closed Bug 1625997 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Remove unnecessary unload event listener when using privileged about content process

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(Firefox :: New Tab Page, task, P3)

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RESOLVED FIXED
Firefox 76
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firefox76 --- fixed

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(Reporter: mconley, Assigned: mconley)

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(Blocks 1 open bug)

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There's an unload event listener here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/9c6e7500c0015a2c60be7b1b888261d95095ce27/browser/components/newtab/AboutNewTabService.jsm#225

this prevents about:home / about:newtab from entering the bfcache. Thankfully, this only occurs when the privileged about content process is enabled. It was added in bug 1416066 to, I think, address a potential leak.

Doing some probing and testing though (mainly be just removing the event listener), I'm not detecting any window leaks when I push to automation with that event listener removed. We should just get rid of it.

Assignee: nobody → mconley

Here's the try push where I removed the event listener, showing no leaks: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=e581bbb07bef274ce38ad98809e61b28d676894e

Priority: -- → P3
Pushed by mconley@mozilla.com:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/7b509941a4f5
Remove unnecessary unload event listener from AboutNewTabChildService. r=k88hudson
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → Firefox 76
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