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MEMORY LEAK FOUND

Even with the tweaks stated above I found a leak...

When browsing LOT of pictures...

The site? the Matbe's cover of CES 2006 (It's a french site, sorry)

System Info:

Computer Specs (I use N-K8A-E3)

FireFox Info

Also, this is my current layout as referal

Links and Memory info:

OPEN FireFox

http://www.google.ca/ FF 30.1RAM - 20.6VIR (It's my home page)

http://www.matbe.com/ FF 32.4RAM - 22.7VIR (in my BookMark toolbar)

http://www.matbe.com/actualites/12316/ces-2006-las-vegas/ FF 33.2RAM - 23.5VIR (clicked on the "Compte-rendu du CES sur Matbe" at the right)

NEW TAB (Middle mouse) ON THE LINK: "Lire notre compte-rendu du CES 2006" (Untill now just press the yellow ">")

There 30 pages, click on some pictures here and here...

At the end of 30 pages, I got: 301.5RAM - 291.5VIR

Disapointed... :(

It's really when you browser HIGH pictures sites that the leak ...

(Hopes It Help and all informatoin needed is there...)

Edit: FF still my Fav Browser, I will just close it more often... :p

Edited by NI3NOR

This article, Prefetching Hints - Helping Firefox and Google speed up your site, has an interesting comment in.

When someone accesses one of our web pages, their browser can download not only the web page they asked for, but also the pages they might visit next. Well-behaved clients like Firefox will only do this with pages that are specificly marked for prefetching by the author or system administrator. Unless the user has installed the Fasterfox extension, in which case it will rampage around your site grabbing anything that looks like a static page, whether the user has asked for it or not.

Bold emphesis mine. Another possible reason for bloated memory usage..

I had fasterfox installed for about a day before I found a page that wouldn't let me view it because it said I was requesting too much from it's servers. I uninstalled it.

...max_entries = 50 default, no change...any noticed difference is a placebo affect.

Create max_viewers = 0 to disable fastback.

Edited by Ned

I often do alot of browsing, and today i had 50+ tabs open at one time, each page holding multiple frames. Those pages holds alot of images and text but I often close them after 20 secs. The main problem is that Firefox keeps the stuff in memory instead of writing it to the cache. Clearing your private data seems to help alot on the memory useage, but doesn't unload it all. (today firefix suddently went up to 1GB+ memory useage but i only have 512 mb ram.)

I have prefetch disabled.

I don't know if this could be related to a memory leak, but Gmail notifier often crash Firefox just after you received a mail and click the button to open your gmail inbox (before the toaster window is gone)

I have that problem with gmail notifier too!!!!, every time I click it.

1) URL

2) What you was doing and steps to reproduce

3) Memory being used

4) Build ID via Help->About Firefox

EDIT: Forgot to mention why I need this. I got some tools to trace leaks in Firefox and hopefully I can disect these leaks and get em fixed.

All right....On an other forum I've got a tip I could post here....

I'm using firefox 1.5 , no extensions , iFox skin, (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5)

There is a quite big difference in memory usage if I run this web stream : Fm4_stream

I'm just curious for the explanation why....and if there is any way to change it....

Now I don't know if this is exactly what you are looking for but I try it anyway...

here are the pics to the numbers:

post-84953-1138452910_thumb.jpg

peal and leak-gauge.pl from

- http://dbaron.org/log/2006-01#e20060110a

- http://dbaron.org/log/2006-01#e20060114a

and trunk builds

also, people with memory usage problems, please cast your eyes over :

The one and only "Memory usage" thread & FQA

It may help.

Here are the known leaks so far:

# #168411 [Firefox:Bookmarks]-Move bookmarks transactions into a JS service (adding a bookmark leaks the Add Bookmark dialog) [All]

# #296474 [Firefox:Toolbars]-Memory leak when customizing toolbars [All]

# #321282 [Core:XML]-Loading Gmail leaks six DOMWindows [Mac]

# #323402 [Firefox:Software Update]-Memory leak when update firefox and select 'Later' to restart later [Win]

# #323443 [Firefox:Bookmarks]-Memory leak when you add/remove a separator [Win]

# #324586 [Firefox:General]-browser.xul leaks (with Flashgot & Adblock Filterset.G Updater installed) [Win]

# #324793 [Firefox:General]-[mlk] Memory Leak with IE Tab 1.0.7 extension [Win]

# #324864 [Firefox:General]-[mlk] Memory leak with Session Saver v0.2.1.031 extension [Win]

The GMAIL and google map issues have been greatly reduced today due to a fix in a different bug. The last three are the significant ones plus the google leak. THe others only if you do those like 100 times a session

WHOA! Mine is 50!!! That probably explains why it's taking so much memory! Also, that's the default, not 5. I click reset, and it changes it back to 50.

You guys are getting confused.

browser.sessionhistory.max_entries = 50

browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers = 0 (Will have to add this as an integer = to 0 if you are having memory issues and don't care if back/forward navigation is a half second faster)

browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers = -1

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