285642 - memory consumption is up by 30% from FF1.0 to 1.0.1

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[E Florac]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1

Opening with the same theme, extensions, profile a given page with Firefox 1.0.1
sucks up much more RAM than FF 1.0. From a typical web page, one single window
with one single tab, FF 1.0 uses 25-30MB while FF 1.0.1 uses 35-40MB!!!
The system (256MB RAM) never went swapping while using FF 1.0 even with 20 tabs
or more; with 1.0.1 it's close to impossible to use several windows and 20 tabs,
or for 2 different users to start Firefox in 2 X sessions (but it's perfectly OK
with FF 1.0).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[David Tenser [:djst]]

What happens if you test with a clean profile and compare the two versions?

Comment 2

[E Florac]

(In reply to comment #1)
> What happens if you test with a clean profile and compare the two versions?

It works fine :/ Well should be an extension or theme, I'll test them one after
the other!