206772 - 1.3.1 and 1.4b leak memory

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Elizabeth Stapel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 WebWasher 3.0
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4b/mozilla-win32-1.4b-installer-sea.exe

I upgraded from 1.2.1 to 1.4b, and encountered massive memory leaks.  (I use
MemTurbo, so I could watch the memory being depleted.)  I downgraded to 1.3.1,
but still had the memory leaks (though not the crashes from 1.4b).  So I have
gone back to 1.2.1, and the memory leak is gone.  (Plus, I like the
splash-screen better.  Do you think you could go back to the flaming dragon for
newer releases?)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the browser.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Regardless of whether the browser is open in the tray, whether I've surfed
anywhere, or whether the browser is still running, memory dissipates.  Using
MemTurbo to scrub RAM is only stop-gap.  I have to re-boot to kill whatever is
munching the memory.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should sit still and behave itself, instead of acting like a long-lost
son of Microsoft.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>Do you think you could go back to the flaming dragon for
newer releases?

No because we removed it because of copyright issues.
You can very simple replace the splash if you put your own splash-screen in the
Mozilla directory as "Mozilla.bmp"
Follow the links in this page :
http://themes.mozdev.org/splash.html

Please try this :
Uninstall Mozilla and manually delete the Mozilla application directory except
the plugins subfolder and reinstall Mozilla. (the Mozilla profile is stored in a
different location and will not deleted)

Sorry but general leak-bugs are invalid unless you have an example URL.
A mem-leak without a special URL is worksforme

-> wfm