Comment 2 for bug 271578

Open Ten tabs in Firefox:

Url's:

http://www.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&article=5

http://www.wbgo.org/listennow/wbgo.m3u

http://www.currenseacharters.com/tidecharts/SelectDateSubmit.cfm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012103884.html?hpid=topnews

http://finance.yahoo.com/

http://www.aol.com/

http://www.drudgereport.com/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

http://www.wonkette.com/

http://www.accuweather.com

wait 15 minutes

System monitor says using 195 MB of ram

test each URL

Nothing remarkable, operates as expected

Good work !

Thanks

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:26 pm
Subject: [Bug 271578] Re: Firefox freezes using multitabs and let to sit 20 min

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04?
Thanks in advance.

** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Firefox freezes using multitabs and let to sit 20 min
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Status in “firefox-3.0” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:

Firefox freezes using multitabs and let to sit

Sequence is as
follows:

using: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820
Firefox/3.0.1

Using tabbed Firefox browser

with tabs at the following URL's:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.scuba/topics?hl=en&lnk
http://news.google.com
http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn
http://www.wbgo.org/listennow/index.php
http://www.wonkette.com/
http://www.wbgo.org/listennow/wbgo.m3u

tabbed session starts at ~ 70 MB

- now either start switching between these windows

as you add windows, mem usage creeps up

one extra window == 86.5 meg

Kill window, same 86.5 meg

in a minute mem goes down to 86.1

click on a news story / go into a new page mem suddenly 91.5 meg

Let sit 1 minute

"arrow back" to main URL on tab, ==89.2 Meg

still one Firefox window

pop up another window on a news story ( 2 windows, one tabbed one not) == 91.2
Meg mem used

click on another news story, third window == 97.5 meg

let sit 20 minutes == mem usage is 102 megabytes

URL http://www.wbgo.org/listennow/wbgo.m3u has stopped reacting or producing
sound (Music)

kill that window

screen suddenly turns grey, system monitor says firefox is using 103.2 megabytes

System Monitor says firefox is sleeping

Firefox does not respond to cursor except to minimize screens

System using only 354 meg of 1 Gig and 25% cpu being used by system

"continue process" on system monitor does not restore app.

App still grey and unresponsive

click on tabs

Message

"The wi
ndow "FT.com / In depth - Panic grips credit markets - Mozilla Firefox"
is not responding.

Forcing this application to quit will cause you to lose any unsaved changes."

Screen is still grey

This is a bug