291277 - excesive increase os memory usage when opening that web

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[anzalone]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

When you open the .gz file at
http://debian.teleglobe.net/dists/sid/Contents-sh.gz the memory usage of firefox
increases from 40Mb til 240Mb. I have test with other .gz files from
http://debian.teleglobe.net/dists/sid and the memory also grows up excesively.
Contents-sh.qz size is of 5 Mb. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://debian.teleglobe.net/dists/sid/Contents-sh.gz
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The memory usage of FF grows up from 40 Mb to 240 Mb

Expected Results:  
I don't know how much memory needs FF to open a .gz file, but I suppose that 200
Mb for a file of 5 Mb is excesive

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, the .gz file contains 87MB of information after decompression. That's
what Firefox is trying to show you.