297910 - Memory gets used up on Save Page As

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[ben stephens]

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

I looking at http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ and saved a few pages, after a few
saves, ff stopped responding. Looked at windows task manager, noticed
FIREFOX.EXE was taking up most of my memory. Closed ff and tried saving pages
again, watched task manager as i did it, noticed memory usage for ff increasing
by ~ 10Mb for each page saved until it ran out.

Have tried saving several of the mozilla site pages, same problem does not seem
to occur.

Have tried saving several slashdot pages and same prblem does seem to occur.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save several pages of www.rubycentral.org or slashdot.org
2. Carry on until ff stops responding

Actual Results:  
FF stops responding

Expected Results:  
Carried on responding :)

Might relate to bug 270020

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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