391378 - Firefox request too memory (RAM) that cause crash

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Eagle Al]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

Platform/OS:    WinXP MediaCenter/Professional 2005
RAM:            1GB
FF:             2.0.6
FF memory usage after 5hours: 327MB

Firefox uses a lot of Memory, so after a long time, it crash or become slow.
Please fix this, I know only a bit of VB programming language
so I can't help. Sorry

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use FF for a long time
2.Then with Windows Task Manager view how much memory FF use

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Sorry but this bug doesn't help the developers.
The developers are looking for memory leaks and they alwys try to improve the memory footprint.

Comment 2

[timeless]

there's no point in cc'ing yourself to a bug, unless you opt not to use being the reporter as a reason to get mail, you'll get mail for any change other people make to your bug.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email - if you want mail for changes you make, you need to clear The change was made by me (it's simplest to click "enable all mail")