295203 - firefox extremly slow after downloading many files

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Gecko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl-PL; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl-PL; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

This problem occurs when you download a lot of files. Whem you've got over 200
downloads Firefox get even 200MB of RAM. It doesn't depend on files size but on
amount: more downloaded files you get-slower Firefox run.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to any page with a lot of pictures (http://images.google.com/ for example)
2.Download all files one by one as you get over 200 downloaded listed in
Download Manager
3.Watch how big Firefox is

Actual Results:  
Once I get over 250 RAM used by Firefox because I got about 400 small files listed!


I have AMD Duron 1GHz (FSB 100MHz), 256 DDR-RAM, nVidia Ge-Force 2 MX 400 64Mb
TV-OUT AGP 4x, (ECS K7S5A (SiS 753), Seagate Barracuda 120Gb

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, what happens when you cleanup the download manager (button on the
lower right) ?

Comment 2

[Gecko]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Reporter, what happens when you cleanup the download manager (button on the
> lower right) ?
When cleaning up the list, much RAM is freed. The speed difference is great. For
best results I restart Firefox - then it's like new one!
By the way - sorry for my english