468268 - There seems to be a memory issue with firefox

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[John]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

When ever i check the Windows Task Manager for Memory usage, my firefox normal eats up 200MB-300MB of my 2GB of ram. After getting firefox 3.0.4 however, those numbers will surge at to 1,450,000MB. Completely eating up my RAM. i took a screen shot of the incident if you'd like to see that, it happens a lot.

This error occurs no matter how many tabs i have open, 20 tabs, or just 5. And it doesn't matter if its a clean install of firefox, or after doing suggested tweaks to the about:config you'll find online (i can provide links if you're interested)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Not sure, but it happens with my firefox. I like a lot of add-ons, but i've never had this problem before so i don't see why it should start occuring now. If you'd like i can provide you with a list of the add-ons i use.
Actual Results:  
see the "details" box.

Expected Results:  
i would expect firefox to run normally and eat up around 200MB-300MB consistently... not over 1,000MB....

nope. Please email me on the issue.

Comment 1

[John]

email: [e-mail]

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Thank you for this report. However, in order to make it more useful, please follow the steps found at http://new.quality.mozilla.org/bug-writing-guidelines and report back with your results.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no crash or dataloss = not critical.
for comment #1 : Everyone can see your email adress but nobody will send you an email but you will get a notification email for every comment in this bug report and finally you should know that Bugzilla is not for support requests, don't expect help for any issues here.

For your issue :
Do you get this in the Firefox safemode ?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

no response to question, so => incomplete