184622 - Memory leaks when opening/closing a lot of tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 131456

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[tirantloblanc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

I get a big memory leak if i open close tabs a lot. For example, I was watching
a friend's foto album, and i opened each foto (10-12 photos /60-100KB each one)
in a new tab to made them reloading faster. I did that for every page on the
album. But in the 6th page, phoenix started to become slower until it almost
brought my linux system down. I had to open a console to kill -9 it. It ate all
my memory and almost half of my swap file (~256MB)
I have had this problem with the other versions too. If you open and close a lot
of tabs in the same session you end up having memory leaks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Were they jpeg images? There is a known memory leak when opening lots of jpeg
(e.g. porno surfing or whatever).

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Dupe of Mozilla bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131456 ***

Comment 3

[tirantloblanc]

It wasn't porn, just some jpgs from the college party :) But i wouldn't mind to
try with porn.

Comment 4

[David Tenser [:djst]]

I'd say this is a dupe of bug 174760, not 131456.

Simon, what do you think?

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

David, IMO those two bugs are basically about the same thing and when looking
for possible duplicates of this bug here, I already wondered about that.

I simply don't care, so if you want to, feel free to let this dupe point to bug
174760.