605380 - Memory usage growing for no reason

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[marak.v1]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10

Since the last update, even sitting idle, the memory usage of firefox has been climbing.  It reach's a point(somewhere over 1.4 million K) when firefox becomes instable, and begins to artifact webpages(repeating paragraph long sections when attempting to scroll down) requiring a restart.  If left too long, the firefox process will remain(and continue to grow) in process's, but no application heading(ending the process fix's this).

It happens even when viewing offline files with no outside stimulis(its university offline files, so no add's or anything).

Getting bloody annoying lol, even sitting here atm doing this its grown from 350,000k to just under 500,000k

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open firefox and at least 2 tabs(probably even one tab, have not confirmed)
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only addon is ABP(Add block plus) - disabling this does not stop the problem.   Had script block on a few days ago, but removed as it was causing more instability.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Can you test in a fresh profile? http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles
Also, update flash, java, quicktime, adobe reader, etc. to the latest version available on the developers websites.
When you have it sitting idle, is a webpage open? What is a list of the webpages you visited before?

Comment 2

[marak.v1]

Alright, doing all that now(gotta pick up the missus in 30 mins though), ill post back here once its done

Comment 3

[marak.v1]

Today's patch fixed the problem - go firefox team!