956079 - Leaked IntentReceiver in BrowserLocaleManager

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Locale switching and selection, defect)

Description

[(inactive) Jim Chen [:jchen] [:darchons]]

Saw this in logcat while looking at something else.

> Activity org.mozilla.fennec_aurora.App has leaked IntentReceiver org.mozilla.gecko.LocaleManager$1@424cbe38 that was originally registered here. Are you missing a call to unregisterReceiver()?
> android.app.IntentReceiverLeaked: Activity org.mozilla.fennec_aurora.App has leaked IntentReceiver org.mozilla.gecko.LocaleManager$1@424cbe38 that was originally registered here. Are you missing a call to unregisterReceiver()?
> 	at android.app.LoadedApk$ReceiverDispatcher.<init>(LoadedApk.java:792)
> 	at android.app.LoadedApk.getReceiverDispatcher(LoadedApk.java:593)
> 	at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiverInternal(ContextImpl.java:1111)
> 	at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiver(ContextImpl.java:1098)
> 	at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiver(ContextImpl.java:1092)
> 	at android.content.ContextWrapper.registerReceiver(ContextWrapper.java:365)
> 	at org.mozilla.gecko.LocaleManager.initialize(LocaleManager.java:62)
> 	at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp$16.run(GeckoApp.java:1300)
> 	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
> 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
> 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
> 	at org.mozilla.gecko.util.GeckoBackgroundThread.run(GeckoBackgroundThread.java:32)

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Shouldn't be a big deal, but probably means we could miss out on some system locale change broadcasts.

Might also go away after Bug 949495.

Comment 3

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