275203 - Memory leaks from repeatedly opening/closing the history combo box from the navigation toolbar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Daniel Mooney]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Repeatedly open/close the history combo box from the navigation toolbar. The
memory footprint increases by several K every 15-20 times it's opened and closed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open firefox
2. Open Task Manager on a 2K/XP machine
3. Repeatedly click the down arrow to open/close the history combo box on the
navigation toolbar
4. Watch "Processes" -> "Mem Usage" -> firefox.exe in Task Manager
5. Every 15-20 times the history is opened, Mem Usage increases by several Kilobytes
Actual Results:  
Memory increases by several Kilobytes every 15-20 times the history is expanded
and is never freed.

Expected Results:  
The memory should be freed.

Comment 1

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

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

Comment 2

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

Sorry my mistake on duping

Comment 3

[Aaron Racine]

Reporter, are you still seeing this problem with the latest release of Firefox when using a clean profile?

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I can't reproduce this using Firefox 2.0.0.6 with a new profile. Closing as WORKSFORME.