1831855 - At FF Close, creates 1000's of processes until FF aborts or kills system

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Bill Lee]

Attachment: Screenshot system monitor showing 100's of processes

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/112.0

Steps to reproduce:

Normal daily use of FF, no web pages open (or not: makes no difference). Close the application with either main menu 'Quit' or by the window 'X'.

Actual results:

FF starts creating 100's (1000's?) of processes. Using the system monitor, all CPUs go to 100% continuously. After some period, perhaps a minute or so, one of two things happens: either FF finally crashes wit a crash report being sent, or the system crashes and the computer reboots.

Expected results:

FF should terminate normally.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Darkspirit]

Thanks for the report! Please check tomorrow if this has been fixed in Firefox 113.

Comment 3

[Bill Lee]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

FF 113 seems to have cured this problem.

Rgrds,

Bill Lee