969681 - android.app.IntentReceiverLeaked: Activity org.mozilla.fennec_nalexander.App has leaked IntentReceiver org.mozilla.gecko.LocaleManager

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 956079

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

I see this while testing locally (so it's a little artificial) but we're not cleaning up our registered receiver at all.

E StrictMode(22355)           android.app.IntentReceiverLeaked: Activity org.mozilla.fennec_nalexander.App has leaked IntentReceiver org.mozilla.gecko.LocaleManager$1@42f12dd8 that was originally registered here. Are you missing a call to unregisterReceiver()?
E StrictMode(22355)           	at android.app.LoadedApk$ReceiverDispatcher.<init>(LoadedApk.java:805)
E StrictMode(22355)           	at android.app.LoadedApk.getReceiverDispatcher(LoadedApk.java:606)
E StrictMode(22355)           	at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiverInternal(ContextImpl.java:1705)
E StrictMode(22355)           	at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiver(ContextImpl.java:1685)
E StrictMode(22355)           	at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiver(ContextImpl.java:1679)
E StrictMode(22355)           	at android.content.ContextWrapper.registerReceiver(ContextWrapper.java:453)
E StrictMode(22355)           	at org.mozilla.gecko.LocaleManager.initialize(LocaleManager.java:62)
E StrictMode(22355)           	at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp$16.run(GeckoApp.java:1288)
E StrictMode(22355)           	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:730)
E StrictMode(22355)           	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
E StrictMode(22355)           	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
E StrictMode(22355)           	at org.mozilla.gecko.util.GeckoBackgroundThread.run(GeckoBackgroundThread.java:32)

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

That's because Applications don't have a termination handler.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Application.html#onTerminate%28%29