286773 - Not releasing memory while using Firefox 1.0.1

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263930

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Sparks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

With the task manager displayed, Process Mem Usage starts at 17,300K when
Firefox starts. As I go to different webpages and open new sessions, the number
climbs steadily.  It got to 74,220K once.  When I close Firefox the process
disappears.
It sounds like it's not releasing memory properly.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Task Manager - Processes tab
2.Start Firefox and go to different webpages
3.Watch Mem Usage continuously climb.

Actual Results:  
I'm afraid of running out of memory. Luckily, I have 512MB, so this hasn't
happened yet.

Expected Results:  
Release unused memory.

This is Firefox Version 1.0.1
I checked the open bugs and I'm not sure if Bug #263930 is saying the same thing
or not.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263930 ***

Comment 2

[Tom Sparks]

--March 28, 2005  --

Please either remove this bug # from the system or somehow stop the emails coming
to me about it.

Thanks!

tom