424372 - Firefox leaks with the Exif Viewer Data Window open

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Attachment: leak log

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008031818 Minefield/3.0b5pre ID:2008031818

Steps to reproduce:
-> Install the Exif Viewer Extension
-> Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3905
-> Click right on the Preview Image in the right corner -> View Exif Data
-> Close Firefox with this Window open
--> Leak

   0 TOTAL                                          25     6429   685017      135 ( 2031.00 +/-  1745.29)  1611475      146 ( 1997.83 +/-  3043.12)

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Let's find the extension author here and have them help us fix this bug (since it could be an extension problem).

Comment 2

[Basil Hashem [:baz]]

Added Alan to the CC list and removed whiteboard tag.

Comment 3

[Alan Raskin]

Does this mean that the Exif Viewer does not leak memory if its window is closed *before* Firefox is closed?

Do other extensions that open windows have the same problem?

Is there anything that I can add, to the close event of the window for example, to mimic whatever cleanup FF is doing? 

Is there anything in the leak log that should be of particular interest to me?

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Jonas or Ben, can you help Alan out here?

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Not wanted for 1.9.0.x since this doesn't meet maintenance release criteria (security, stability, regression from maintenance release).

Comment 6

[Andrew McCreight [:mccr8]]

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