281136 - Mozilla browser eats the memory until it is killed by the system

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Pavel Alexeev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041219
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041219

By clicking on "Advanced Mass Sender 4.2" link under
http://www.getserial.com/index.php?search=a&nn=12 , mozilla eats memory until it
is killed by system. I'm not able to do everything to stop it. "top" shows over
1 Gb VIRT memory consumed by mozilla-bin.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://www.getserial.com/index.php?search=a&nn=12
2. Click on "Advanced Mass Sender 4.2"
3. Enjoy it, you will not be able to do everything until the system kills
mozilla thats eats memory and swap continuously :)

Actual Results:  
Mozilla eats memory and is after 30 seconds killed automatically.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla opens new browser window.

Comment 1

[Pavel Alexeev]

The system:
Slackware Linux 10, Mozilla compiled from source (from mozilla.org, no patches).
AdBlock, Flashblock and SessionSaver extensions and Flash Plugin 7.0 installed.
Other people says that the same behaviour have mozilla 1.7.2 under SuSE 9.2 and
Firefox 1.0 but not always (sometimes the browser behaves correctly on this page).

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Worksforme with a current trunk build....

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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