Closed Bug 223351 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Mozilla stops rendering whenever I open several tabs with a few images each

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: cyx, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 I have been experiencing this for quite some time now. Since 1.2 or 1.3, maybe earlier. After browsing for some time (sometimes longer, sometimes not), Mozilla just hangs. Freezes. Everything else seems to be in order, though - the system seems to be just fine - but Mozilla won't respont to clicks, menus or anything. 100% of the times I got this the memory listed in the mozilla.exe process in task manager is above 60MB or so. Only solution is to kill the process and start over. Sometimes mozilla even closes by clickin on the "close window" button - but the process stays there forever if not terminated. I don't use the Quick Launch, btw. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start Mozilla 2. visit lots of pages, specially those with pictures - it will happen faster if you go opening new ones in tabs while leaving the others open Actual Results: Mozilla hangs - stops responding. sometimes it still runs for some time - but stops rendering. You can still interact, but nothing is drawn unless off-screen: for example, on a long, scrolled page, you will see only what was not on-screen. And only if you manage to scroll up or down. Expected Results: Just run without the mentioned glitch. since there is no actual crash, I can't specify IDs or messages. system: Intel Pentium III 850MHz, ASUS P3B-F, 1GB SDRAM. Windows XP Pro. plugins: File name: npCortona.dll Cortona Netscape Browser Plug-In (4, 1, 1, 91) File name: NPJava11.dll Java Plug-in 1.4.2 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper) File name: NPJava12.dll Java Plug-in 1.4.2 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper) File name: NPJava13.dll Java Plug-in 1.4.2 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper) File name: NPJava14.dll Java Plug-in 1.4.2 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper) File name: NPJava32.dll Java Plug-in 1.4.2 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper) File name: NPJPI142.dll Java Plug-in 1.4.2 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper) File name: NPOJI610.dll Java Plug-in 1.4.2 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper) File name: npqtplugin.dll The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide... File name: NPSWF32.dll Shockwave Flash 6.0 r79 File name: npdrmv2.dll Network Object Plugin File name: npdsplay.dll Npdsplay dll File name: npwmsdrm.dll Windows Multimedia Services DRM Store Plug-In File name: np32dsw.dll Macromedia Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 8.5 File name: nppdf32.dll Adobe Acrobat Plug-In Version 5.00 for Netscape
Alright, here is the thing: I'm changing the subject now. All conditions stays the same, but let's deal with the "stops rendering" issue for now - since I couldn't make it crash. Mozilla just stopped rendering - memory usage is 140MB. how to reproduce: 1 - open mozilla 2 - open each of these links on its own tab: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=d525ea4b5ec291b445d370e8f5db264e&threadid=8780 http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=d525ea4b5ec291b445d370e8f5db264e&threadid=9562 3 - let them sit for a while to load all images. If still not enough, go ahead and open the next pages on each link - but on new tabs. The goal is to have several things open at the same time. When memory usage is high enough, you should be able to switch between tabs - but see no change at all. if you focus another window on top of Mozilla and back, you will see that Mozilla is not rendered - but still works. Switching between tabs has the same effect: you can only see things if you scroll up or down on each page. hope this makes it clearer.
Summary: Mozilla hangs (or loops infinitely) whenever memory exceeds 60MB or so → Mozilla stops rendering whenever I open several tabs with a few images each
well the browser in fact slows down on this pages but i switch betwen tabs and it renders ok. the behavior i can see here is that "new tab" context menus on tabs won't work at all. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040210
Leonardo, are you still seeing this problem with Mozilla slowing down extremely, even in a recent build such as 1.7a? I was able to load the pages you mentioned and Mozilla only used about 22 megabytes of RAM. Also, it is possible that this is bug 98835.
Resolving WFM since there has been no confirmation, and this is likely a dupe or symptom of one of the various bugs on Mozilla hogging resoueces anyway. Leonardo, if you are still seeing this in a recent Mozilla build (such as the upcoming 1.7 release) please feel free to reopen.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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