Closed Bug 318681 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Too much memory used by storing image data in uncompressed form

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
All
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259672

People

(Reporter: aigarius, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Keywords: memory-footprint, perf, testcase) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051123 Ubuntu/1.4.99+1.5rc3.dfsg-1ubuntu3 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051123 Ubuntu/1.4.99+1.5rc3.dfsg-1ubuntu3 Firefox/1.5

At the URL in question you can see an analysis for greatly decreasing memory usage of X server and Mozilla Firefox browser by keeping image data in compressed format.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a page with a lot of JPEGs

Actual Results:  
Firefox stores uncompressed bitmaps of all images in memory of the X server.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have stored the images as JPEGs on the client side.

This problem is especially troublesome for thin client computing - with thin clients you can not affort to put 64 Mb or even more RAM in for the X server.
Keywords: footprint, perf, testcase
No need to file this - Federico already menioned it here.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259672 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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