Closed Bug 226297 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

The Memory Leak Problem Still Exists in Mozilla 1. 6 alpha on Win98

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

x86
Windows 98
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 204374

People

(Reporter: asilver76, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030 The memory leak/graphics corruption problem that was so prevalent in versions prior to 1.6 still exists in the 1.6 alpha. although the problem takes much longer to manifest itself - up to a number of hours. However, prior to manifesting, the system shows the same symptoms as prior versions - overall slowdown, problems with windows switching, and decreased command responsiveness. When the graphical corruption occurrs, it takes the same form as previous problems of the same nature - i.e. screen refeshes do not occur, and content is merely overwritten. Resizing the window causes the window to refresh. This problem also seem to hang versions of sun java (1.4.1-1.4.2) in memory, not allowing the java compinent to unload, and causing the mozilla application to stop responding when triggered to shut down. Bottom Line: whatever workaround or patch was used to fix this problem - be it a change in used memory footprint, new cache flushing code, or whatnot - the implementation is still incomplete, and while this problem is no longer a showstopper, its presence indicates that future versions of Mozilla could break this "fix/workaround", as happened in the Mozilla 1.5 RC3. There should be no reason, at this point, for the core broswer component to have any sort of cache/memory/buffer overflow, given the maturity of the codebase. It is strongly suggested that the full-time Mozilla developers devote a period of a week or so to fully soulve this problem, lest it come back to haunt future versions, especially once the full mozilla firebird core swap gets gets up to speed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use the 1.6 alpha browser for an extended period, preferrably on graphics-heavy pages. 2.Open up as many graphics/pages/images in individual windows (not tabs) as possible. 3.Keep browsing and observe results, the time it takes for said results to manifest, and the system resources reported utilized at the time. Actual Results: The same as reported above. No special steps are needs to attain this result; the above details step merely causes the effectis to manifest in a shorter period of time. Expected Results: Render any and all pages correctly, refreshing content completely when applicable, for as long as the application is in use. The system used is a PIII 550, w/8MB NVIDIA Vanta chipset, and 128 MB RAM OS: Windows 98SE No addtional backgorund processes running. Mozilla is not set for quicklaunch. The only plugins used are flash and sun java 1.4.2. Additional requested specifics will br provided upon request.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204374 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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