432716 - Firefox leaks with Firebug installed on a specific scenario on flickr

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Attachment: leak log

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050621 Firefox/3.0pre

Steps to reproduce:
-> Install the Firebug Extension 1.1 Beta
-> Go to Flickr like http://flickr.com/photos/97996499@N00/407236030/sizes/o/
-> Click on  Download the Original size while this image is loading
-> Download the Image
-> After the Download is complete, close Firefox
--> Leaks

Note: it seems this leak is building up (on a very low level),depending how big the image is.

nsStringStats
 => mAllocCount:         151285
 => mReallocCount:        18901
 => mFreeCount:          151283  --  LEAKED 2 !!!
 => mShareCount:         146153
 => mAdoptCount:          12753
 => mAdoptFreeCount:      12753

   0 TOTAL                                          28       16  4547320        2 (11906.04 +/- 10462.55) 13048769        2 ( 5990.91 +/-  9126.25)

Comment 1

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Same reasoning as for bug 423781.

Sebastian