705710 - Firefox process is immortal

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Federico]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111104165243

Steps to reproduce:

Close Firefox window on Windows XP


Actual results:

Every time I close firefox window, the following things happen:
* the window disappears
* if at least one plugin-container process is active, their number remain unchanger; but if no plugin-container is there, a lot of plugin-containers suddenly appear
* Firefox process start growing and usually stops at 190.000 / 200.000 KB
* If I don't close firefox process, the system freezes


Expected results:

I think it's obvious

Comment 1

[Federico]

I forgot:
if a Facebook page was open, after SEVERAL minute an alert appears, telling me that a JavaScript is slowing down the browser, and asking me if I want to close it.
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No such issue ever happened on Firefox 7.

Comment 2

[:aceman]

Does the issue still occur if you start Firefox in Safe Mode?
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

still unanswered...

(In reply to :aceman from comment #2)
> Does the issue still occur if you start Firefox in Safe Mode?
> https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode