263470 - 100% resource leak after short time on system using standard vga driver (640x480 16 colors). Stop firefox and resources return.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249469

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jeff D.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

After about five minutes of browsing on a laptop machine in standard vga mode
driver, 640x480 resolution 16 colors, all the resources eventually get consumed
and the gui starts to falter and fails. Stopping Firefox restores all the
resources and the gui to normally functioning order. Starting firefox again
repeats the problem.
This is reliably duplicated. Machine is PIII with 256MB RAM. Tried IE and it
does not have the same problem so it would seem like a Firefox problem.
Originally I thought the speed in which it failed was tied to the graphics it
encountered but it seems to fail even when browsing low graphices content pages.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set machine to use the standard vga driver that microsoft provides. it only
supports 640x480 resolution, 16 colors.
2. Start a resource utilization program if you want. 
3. Start Firefox.
4. Browse for a while. Eventually resouces get down to a few percent and the gui
artifacts (wrong fonts,pics not coming up) and eventually gets to 0 percent
available.
5. Exit Firefox. System returns to normal.
Actual Results:  
Resources are consumed and gui fails.

Expected Results:  
It should have allowed me to browse indefinitely without said problem.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

does this happen with a newer OS too ?
Officially win95 isn't supported 

Comment 2

[Jeff D.]

It does seem to be tied to the graphics somehow.
I can make it fail in a minute.
-Going to google and clicking on the image tab above to search for images.
-select advanced search options and select large image sizes.
-enter a generic search term like people.
-on returned search results, begin clicking on images.
-watch resources plummet as resulting page comes up on the screen. maybe it has
to do with resizing images.

I'm guessing you might have automated testing programs which could flesh this
out as well.

Comment 3

[Jeff D.]

(In reply to comment #1)
> does this happen with a newer OS too ?
> Officially win95 isn't supported 

This is Windows Millenium (Windows ME). I don't remember seeing that unsupported.
I'd have to try it at another place to try a newer os.

Comment 4

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249469 ***