291044 - the memory leaks if some certain url is opened

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michel Cheval]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Firefox/1.0.3

It "works" in case if there is an url which was saved onto the harddrive. Then
once opened from HD it makes a leak, even if you're online. Here is the url:
http://www.paroles.net/chansons/20240.htm
And then I think it doesn't work if the page is loaded online. Maybe not.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just open firefox with that page at the HD. Nothing else.

Actual Results:  
Probably, memory leak. To about 160Mb of virtual memory.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Can you please retest a current nightly trunk build.
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
The Gecko in Firefox1.0.X is already very old...

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050419
Firefox/1.0+

WFM

Comment 3

[Michel Cheval]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you please retest a current nightly trunk build.
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
> The Gecko in Firefox1.0.X is already very old...
> 

I will, thank you. But I'm not sure if I know what is 'gecko'. Fallout 2 pops up
in the mind firstly. :-)

Comment 4

[Michel Cheval]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you please retest a current nightly trunk build.
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
> The Gecko in Firefox1.0.X is already very old...

Now I have installed Firefox 1.0+, but no changes have appeared. It still leaks.
(even now :-)

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

Michel - sorry to bother you again, but it works for me. Your reported Firefox version(s) are too old a build to analyze bugs against now. The problem you are reporting may well have been fixed already.

Could you please download a recent version or nightly build from <http://www.mozilla.org/releases/nightly.html>, and then let us know if you still see this problem?

Many thanks, Cigno

Comment 6

[Michel Cheval]

Well. Sorry for not informing for so long, actually i've almost forgot that I'd had this problem.
You're gonna laugh, but it still exists. Since last report I've upgraded my system , reinstalled windows several times, but it does. But it is a little bit neater now: it is about popup windows, which are blocked. Seems the problem is in this site and similiars. 
As I mentioned, I had a system upgrade (Cel 800 -> amd64 1800), so I don't almost feel it, but with old system it was quite unstable and slow, especially when accessing the leaking window of firefox. Even now (when leaking firefox is opened) I have periodical appreciable system slowdowns (when everything hangs up for a few seconds).
And, as I said, the problem is in popup windows. During my lunch the number of popups increased up to 242000 and the memory using grew up to 270 Mb.

I can send printscreens of it and the problem page.

P.S. Forgot: Firefox 1.5.0.3. Now I'm downloading the nightly version you've mentioned.
P.P.S. Now I'm under windows 2003 server. I can test it in Linux, but a little bit later, for KDE now doesn't work.

Comment 7

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

A couple things... Michel, does this happen in Firefox 2.0.0.3 or later? And do you see the problem with a new profile as well? This works fine for me using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP SP2 and Mac OS X 10.4.9.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

Comment 8

[Michel Cheval]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20070117 Firefox/2.0.0.1

The problem disappeared. Though, the link I mentioned loaded very slowly.

Seems, the blocking popup windows politic was reviewed.

Comment 9

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

No known fix solved this so changing to WORKSFORME