1653396 - App is Crashing but duplicating all open tabs and eating my free space

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[MRD]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.3; Mobile; rv:68.0) Gecko/68.0 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

Basically i've been using my device as normal but didnt realise that my free space was disapeering and firefox 68 for android was the culprit until last night when i needed to do an update to my game apps and i saw over 6.2gb of user data was allocated and the cache was quite small and then i started finding that all my open tabs were duplicating each time the app crashed due to a high memory spike which is random and i cant pinpoint when it going to do it but pages are taking ages to connect and load sometimes..it could be video data thats being cached from youtube pages and the duplicated tabs but im unsure as theres no way to check whats being allocated and where but after the update to 68 i noticed all my open tabs thumbnails have also stopped loading and all i now have is a white icon with a globe on it until i view the tab but it doesnt always stay lit up with the pages "favicon" just a letter.

Actual results:

see above

Expected results:

duplicated tabs shouldn't have happened at all thumbnails should remain visible to identify websites when viewed or loaded into the user data cache but they are not.
but surely not over 6gb+ of data on a mobile browser...chrome only used 128mb for all my tabs before i migrated fo firefox.