366570 - On initial start-up browsing first page fills entire memory (RAM & swap)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 367509

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alan Jackson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070110 Minefield/3.0a2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070110 Minefield/3.0a2pre

When I start minefield up and try to browse a page the system becomes unresponsive until all the memory (RAM & swap) has been filled, then memory usage drops to normal levels and I can browse normally with no delays. It only happens on the first instance of firefox that an url is accessed (i.e. I can start two instances of firefox, the one I enter an url in first fills then empties memory before displaying the page, then works normal, the other instance works normal from the offset).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch minefield
2. Enter an address or click a bookmark

Actual Results:  
Memory usages continues to around 90% (monitored using top and ubuntu's system monitor, unfortunately I can't get a screen grab as the system is unresponsive during that process).
Memory then drops to normal levels and the page loads.

Comment 1

[Sylvain Pasche]

Are you using the Ubuntu default theme (Human), and does the problem disappear if you use another theme (Glider for instance)?

I'm wondering if this is a duplicate of bug 367509.

Comment 2

[Alan Jackson]

I changed my theme to Clear Looks and Minefield opens and loads a page without the huge system drain so it is the same problem as bug 367509