267861 - left machine unused fullnight with firefox open, by morning 98% virtual memory was occupied

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[mln sastry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

I locked my windows 2000 professional machine before leaving the office. I left
the firefox browser open.
When i opened the machine in the morning, the machine reported that i am running
low on virtual memory.  I opened the task manager and started killing
applications. When i killed firefox the memory usage came down to 2% from 98%

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open firefox in windows 2000 professional on p4, open couple of tabs,
2.leave the machine idle for the entire night
3.

Actual Results:  
The machine reported low virtual memory problem.. Memory usage was 98%

Comment 1

[Juha-Matti Laurio]

Update to the newest version of Firefox available;
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/all.html

Several security fixes included in this release too.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.