881003 - "Too many open files" when creating many <video> elements

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Description

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: testcase (WARNING: might hang your browser)

STR
1. save the attached testcase + "white.webm" locally in the same directory
2. open the HTML file
3. hover the mouse over the menubar

ACTUAL RESULTS
(firefox:5194): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading icon: Failed to open file '/usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/actions/edit-paste.png': Too many open files
etc.

When quitting Firefox I get some errors during shutdown so I suspect
there could be an associated dataloss as well.

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: "white.webm"

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I don't see evidence that this is a security bug or needs to remain hidden.

Comment 3

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

Can we open this?  Is this still relevant?

Comment 4

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

I think we can open this. I have nebulous plans for shutting down idle decoders which may help here.

Comment 5

[Bryce Seager van Dyk [:bryce] (he/him) - Not reading bugmail]

I no longer see the issue described in this bug. We have other issues associated with opening a large number of media elements, such as bug 1590686, which the test may tickle. However, since I'm not seeing the problems marked here I'm going to close this one.