296752 - memory crash if you use firefox to test your web pages like i do all day long

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tommy Harvey]

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

Firefox will not load all the time but will not clear it's self from memory so
you have to do a ctrl+alt+delete then clear Firefox from memory and start it
again I have to do this about 50 to 75 times a day as I work on my web page all
day long.  Making changes and use Firefox to test my pages I load it through my
text editor TextPad v4.7.3 best HTML editor I have ever seen I call up Firefox
through TextPad as it just passes the HTML page to Firefox.  I know this is not
a big problem but it does happen too much I think and should be looked into, I
talked to the Author of TextPad and he told me that TextPad only pass
information to the default web browser and nothing else.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.First you would need text/html editor that passes html to Firefox
2.Edit some html pages and it will happen - Firefox will not load
3.Then you will have to hit ctrl+alt=delete to stop process and take out Firefox
and restart Firefox

Actual Results:  
Firefox works fine till it fails to dump memory and you have to do the
ctrl+alt=delete and STOP or take Firefox out of memory

Expected Results:  
After loading and when it is STOPed it should it NOT dump it's memory back to
system ?  I would think so ?

Comment 1

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

Does this seem like any of the following? bug 130157, bug 249469, bug 281824?

There *are* memory leaks in the Core (Mozilla) which is why FF also has memory
leaks. While we try our best to plug these leaks, there are some like this that
seem to have no source other than simple "browsing" like this one.

Anyone want to take a stab at which bug to make this a dupe of?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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