296854 - Excessive memory usage which doesn't get freed when FF closes

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Geert Poels]

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

Phenomenon : 
- Firefox starts showing weird behaviour : right to left typing, loading pages
stops, ...
- Closing Firefox destroys the UI but Firefox keeps running as a Windows
process, consuming loads of memory

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce




No crash happens but Firefox remains in memory.

It would be nice if there was some way to 'connect' to Firefox to query its
memory or something.

Comment 1

[Geert Poels]

Attachment: Shows the memory usage

Comment 2

[Geert Poels]

Firefox cannot be restarted, at least its UI doesn't show up again after closure.
The process keeps running in the taskbar.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Bugzilla is not for support and this works for many users. -> wfm
uninstalling all extensions, Firefox safemode or a new profile should fix that.

Please use the mozillazine.org Forums the next time if you have enduser questions.

Comment 4

[Geert Poels]

I'm sorry ?  Weird behaviour and a blatant memory leak are end-user questions ?

Comment 5

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Firefox using memory is not a memory leak
Firefox not releasing memory because the process has not shut down properly is
not a memory leak.
Since firefox works for millions and people who triage bugs see this type of
comment all the time, the bug is marked WORKSFORME and you are asked to take
your question to the support forums so triagers can get on with managing bugzilla.
Most likely it is an extension problem or a problem with your system or
something, eg: not a firefox bug per se.