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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #429476
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 429476

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In , Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090216 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.14
Build Identifier: firefox-3.7a1pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

I'm filing this as a Javascript bug as it seems likely, but the fault may lie elsewhere.

Viewing this URL on a Thinkpad T42p with 1.5GB memory running Ubuntu Jaunty: http://bbarker.co.uk/animate/map.php?file=Edinburgh_to_Holy_Island_cycle.gpx

results in resident memory rising until desktop becomes unresponsive at around 1GB resident, usage is still increasing (highest I've seen is 1.2GB resident then top becomes unresponsive). At this point either firefox is killed, or xorg hangs.

Confirmed with firefox-3.0.14 and firefox-3.7a1pre nightly.

I already reported this bug in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/429476

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://bbarker.co.uk/animate/map.php?file=Edinburgh_to_Holy_Island_cycle.gpx
2. that's it
3.
Actual Results:
resident memory increases, eventually firefox is killed or desktop hangs

Expected Results:
Chromium uses about 80MB resident memory for the same page.