281248 - instance of Mozilla in System Manager using 40+% resources

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Alan Smedley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050205
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050205

I follow the regular Nightly Builds of Mozilla, installing a new copy often
daily.  If I do not completly remove the old files in the \Program Files\Common
Files\mozilla.org\GRE\<Previous Version Directory Name>\ directory tree and give
the computer Registry a clean out with CleanReg and "Ace Utilities" and Cleaning
out the Mozilla Cache before installing I will often get heavy CPU usage on at
least on instance of Mozilla in the System Manager.  This can be up to 40+%. 
Killing that instance off without also cleaning up will not permanantly fix the
problem.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install various Nightly builds one after the other without cleaning out
2.Watch the System Manager for multiple instances of Mozilla
3.

Actual Results:  
Not on all Nightly builds but on many (2 out of 3) it will start to affect CPU
performance which will be degraded.

Expected Results:  
On installing each new version a better cleanup of all the entries in the system
registry and of the old files should be performed as the OS seems to also find
and use files from each <nightly> driectory.  Also the Cache should be cleared
better at install time

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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

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Comment 2

[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.