489767 - Major memory leakage issue: memory consumption above one gigabyte, garbage collection issue?

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[firefox]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)
Build Identifier: 3.0.9

The memory consumption of firefox is a mayor issue.
consumption reaches maximum memory allocation in vista every 1 tot 2 minutes

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install vista
2. run firefox 3.0.9
3. open any website

Comment 1

[firefox]

Attachment: screen shot of my task manager where the issue can be seen live

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Does this also happen in safe-mode? http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Better with beta and safe mode?
 http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

without more info, and no response, this is 
=> incomplete

Comment 4

[Krishna Prasad]

Its the same even with Windows XP SP3 having FireFox 3.5.2. FireFox consumes over a gig of memory within few minutes of usage. the same was not true in earlier versions like FF 2. This problem is seen versions later than FF3.

Comment 5

[Krishna Prasad]

Attachment: screenshot showing the environment

this attachment shows the version of OS, browser and task manager memory consumption