Closed Bug 278959 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Firefox does not release memory when tabs are closed

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Version:
1.0 Branch
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 131456

People

(Reporter: eero, Assigned: bugs)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050116 Firefox/1.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050116 Firefox/1.0 Firefox does not release memory when tabs are closed For example, open 18 tabs and look memory usage. Close all tabs and look memory usage, they are same? Memory is released on firefox close. This is major failure?? So, using tabs take lots of memory!?! Reproducible: Always
Dup of Bug 131456 "Memory use does not go down after closing tabs (resources not released)"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131456 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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