35778 - Linux GTK never unloads fonts

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 5547

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[tenthumbs]

I cannot find any reference to ::XUnloadFont or ::XFreeFont anywhere. (OK, there
is an XUnloadFont int the Motif stuff, but that doesnt' count here.) It appears
that Mozilla never releases any X font resource. I've tried using xmon to
monitor font requests and I see only one CloseFont request and that may be
coming from my window manager. People complained about 4.x not releasing fonts
but even it released them at shutdown; not Mozilla.

I can't see this being a good thing because X resources are finite.

Comment 1

[troy]

Why is this assigned to layout? We have nothing to do with platform specific 
font issues...

Comment 2

[tenthumbs]

Because layout seems to be mucking around in gfx/src/gtk with font stuff and
because layout seems to the people who request a font in the first place. I
thought that if you request a resource you should free it when you're through
with it. Does anyone other than layout know that about a font?

However, many people feel my thought processes are deranged so feel free to
assign it to any place you want.

Comment 3

[Erik van der Poel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5547 ***

Comment 4

[Chris Petersen]

Marking verified dup of 5547.