Closed Bug 449001 Opened 17 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Firefox 3 Hangs in Memory After Close

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

3.0 Branch
x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 455343

People

(Reporter: pavetoom, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 After closing firefox I and opening another firefox session I have none of my personal settings. I then close that session and open the task manager to find 2 sessions of firefox hanging in memory. I have to then manually kill the sessions to get my personal settings back. I then open a new session of firefox and all my settings have returned. It seems firefox is not closing correctly and holding resources and hanging in memory, this is a massive problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open firefox 2. Close firefox 3. Open task manager and it is hanging in memory
Normally it shouldn't start up while it is still in the procedure of closing. The "Close Firefox" message is what you normally should see. Closing takes indeed more time than Firefox 2, because of the new bookmarks & history system Places, especially on slower systems. When you're not on a slow system, there could still be another cause, an add-on. To find out if an add-on is the cause, you can start Firefox in its safe-mode. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
this is happeneing to me also and still i find no remedy.
This sometimes happens to me. Usually only after opening and closing firefox a few times - and then it doesn't shut down properly, meaning I have to shut it down using the task manager. I'm using vista x64 and this problem happens with all versions of firefox 3. I'm surprised no one else has seen this problem!
Flags: blocking-firefox3.2?
Flags: blocking-firefox3.1?
This bug is the same as bug 455343.
Version: unspecified → 3.0 Branch
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Flags: blocking-firefox3.2?
Flags: blocking-firefox3.1?
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