306485 - Firefox hangs in the morning....

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 299578

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Belanger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

I generally, start Firefox on Monday morning and would probably not shut it down
until Friday, except for one ongoing problem, the browser hangs up first thing
in the morning when I click on an email link to a web page, that should be
displayed by Firefox.

First let me tell you how I use Firefox during the day.  Usually right after
starting Firefox, I go to Webshots and look at a large number of gallery
updates.  I will create 5 tabs, one for a set of 30 updated galleries.  I will
then go to the last created tab and create 10 additional tabs, one for 10 of the
30 galleries.  I will then go to the tab of the first updated gallery and create
one tab for each picture that I wish to see more closely.  A single gallery can
have a number of gallery pages amnd will cause me to create 10 to 20 more tabs.
 After I have created all the picture tabs from a gallery, I will ctrl-w to
close the gallery tab, and move on to the next gallery.  I'll do this until the
10 galleries have been reviewed.  I will then go through each of the picture
tabs and if it contains a picture I wish to save, I will click on a link that
will create a new Firefox windo (not a tab).  I will use the right mouse button
to save the picture to disk.  I will then use ctrl-w to close this new window
and the ctrl-w again to close the tab from which the window had been created.  I
will go through all the picture tabs, conditionally saving and closing all
windows and tabs, until I'm back at the tab that contains the 30 updated
galleries from which all this started.  I'll take the next 10 galleries and do
this all again.  When I am done with the page of 30 update galleries, I'll close
that with ctrl-w.  I can potentially have approximately 100 tabs open at any one
time.  I notice that the memory utilization rises, and occassionally you can see
the PC paging using a memory watcher.  After doing all this, I'll visit a number
of other web sites, not always the same from day to day and then go home for the
evening, minimizing Firefox down to the tray (it will be on my companies
internal home page, which does not have any dynamic features on it or automatic
refreshing).  In the morning, I'll be reading my email and one of the emails
will have a link in it.  When I click on the link, I can here the disk whirling
away, apparently attempting to get Firefox paged back in or something.  The CPU
utilitization can go to 100% and stay that way for quite some time (I've seen 10
or more minutes pass by like this), but Firefox does not get raise up from the
tray and the web page is nto displayed for this whole time.  When I use the
right mouse button to close Firefox, a dialog box is display indicating the
Firefox is not responding and do I want to close it now.  Which I do.  I then
start a fresh Firefox session, click on the web like from my email (Lotus Notes,
if it matters), and the web page is immediately displayed.

From what I can tell, it looks like Firefox is having some memory management
problems.  I don't know if it is related to tabbed browsing or not, but just the
way the memory utilization numbers are looking and the way the system behaves in
the morning, this seems like the most likely culprit.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
The software should behave identically from day to day, whether the browser was
freshly started or been idle for many hours (assuming both are starting from the
same place - my home page).

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 299578 ***