168928 - Acrobat Reader remains in memory after closing PDF-page.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Plugins Graveyard :: PDF (Adobe), defect)

Description

[Sami Tillgren]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020909
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020909

After viewing PDF-document with the browser the Acrobat Reader process remains
in memory so that it is visible in Task Manager and the Mem Usage is 20MB.

The AcroRd32.exe -process remains in memory even if I close a tab, close Mozilla
and exit the Quick Launch.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a PDF-file using Mozilla
2. Close all Mozilla related products
3. 

Actual Results:  
AcroRd32.exe remains in Task Manager reserving over 20MB of memory.

Expected Results:  
The Acrobat Reader process should be gone and memory released.

- Using W2k SP3
- Installed Acrobat Reader v.5.0.5.

Comment 1

[Malcolm Rowe]

I assume the PDF file is being opened within the browser window (via the 
Acrobat plugin), rather than by Acrobat running as a helper application.

If the acrobat plugin is launching AcroRd32.exe as a COM server (which I think 
it is), the COM implementation in Windows is responsible for asking the 
executable to exit when all outstanding external references are released.  It 
may take a couple of minutes before this occurs.

Could you check that that isn't what's happening here?  Alternatively, does 
AcroRd32 exit immediately if you do the same thing via Internet Explorer?

Comment 2

[shrirang khanzode]

one more time..this is invalid. not a mozilla problem. acrobat should close it's 
process.

Comment 3

[shrirang khanzode]

-

Comment 4

[Sami Tillgren]

I'm glad to confirm this is not a Mozilla issue.
The result is exactly the same when trying with MSIE 6 SP1. So, the Acrobat Reader seems to be buggy.

This case can be closed.
Keep up the good work guys! :-)

Comment 5

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

*** Bug 222376 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***