275860 - RAM hogging gets larger with more tabbed windows (versus Avant browser)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Bernard White]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When I open more than about 40 tabs, as I routinely do due to the fact that I do
not have a broadband connection and must get lots of pages in a single internet
session, then the RAM usage creeps up until the PC becomes unusable. This does
not happen in Avant browser for Internet Explorer as the avant browser seems to
be able to manage the web pages by saving the unused tabs to disk for retrieval
into RAM random access memory later.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Keep opening up tabs (in new windows if preferred)
2. Use task manager (press ctrl + alt + delete to get task manager)
3. Verify, in the "process" tab in task manager that RAM is getting out of control.

Actual Results:  
PC performance grinds to a halt.

Expected Results:  
Save unused RAM to disk.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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