680767 - firefox eats cpu and ram while displaying ftp directory

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Toralf Förster]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110816 Gentoo Firefox/3.6.20
Build ID: 20110816184455

Steps to reproduce:

went to http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/


Actual results:

loooong time till directory was displayed completely, ff needed 1/2 GB RAM


Expected results:

should be faster

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

A new started Firefox6.0 on win32 takes 200mb.
Can you please try it again with FF6 ?

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

Attachment: Zipped, Save Page as Web complete

I found a regression range with attachment.

Regression range(cached m-c hourly)
Fast(initial page is shown within about 10 sec/@2.5GHz Core2Quad):
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5f857be14db9
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b3pre) Gecko/20100727 Minefield/4.0b3pre ID:20100728145944
Very slow(browser almost hang up):
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b8b62b351c09
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b3pre) Gecko/20100728 Minefield/4.0b3pre ID:20100728152620
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=5f857be14db9&tochange=b8b62b351c09
Triggered by:
Bug 572520 - make all imgIDecoderObserver notifications asynchronous

Comment 3

[Alice0775 White]

Sorry,  please ignore comment #2

Because this bug is for 3.6. comment #2 is different problem.

Comment 4

[Alice0775 White]

Filed a Bug 680786

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Should retest here once that bug is fixed....

Comment 6

[Ioana (away)]

WFM on Ubuntu 13.04 x86:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0

Please only reopen this issue if you can reproduce it with current Firefox builds.