Closed
Bug 184534
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
Mozilla consumes 100% CPU and 400MB memory after downloading some files
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
DUPLICATE
of bug 169777
People
(Reporter: a1291762, Assigned: asa)
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 I've been running Moz 1.2.1 for a while now and I only just noticed this so it may be site-specific... Basically, I saved file http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/identd.c to my disk (Using "Save As...") and after the file was written, Mozilla went to 100% CPU and ate 400MB RAM. Waiting for 10 minutes didn't resolve the problem. Also, selecting "Save Link As..." from http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/identd.html causes the problem too. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the URL http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/identd.c 2. "Save As..." and save to your disk Actual Results: Mozilla writes the file to disk then consumes available CPU and lots of RAM. It completely unresponsive, requiring a forced kill. Expected Results: Written the file. Since Moz didn't "crash" I can't get any useful information from it. This bug depresses me as it means I'll have to go back to the trusty old Moz 1.0, the last STABLE release that mozilla.org has produced. I'd love to use a more recent version but there's been a MAJOR and ANNOYING bug in every release since then!
Comment 1•22 years ago
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Have you installed Mozilla in an emtpy directory ? (not over an older build ) Can you please delete mozilla/components/compreg.dat and retest and if that also fails delete profile/xul.mfl (while mozilla is not running of course)
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Comment 2•22 years ago
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I always install Mozilla clean. It's the only way to "uninstall" .xpi things you've added. I also tried saving that file from Moz 1.0.1 and (suprise) it works just fine. I'll do *another* clean install of 1.2.1 and see if it happens on other sites. The only .xpi I have installed is minirot13 (but that's a mailnews thing).
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Comment 3•22 years ago
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OK so after doing a clean install of Moz 1.2.1 it works now... Why would that be? I don't recall Mozilla crashing since I installed it last time.
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Comment 4•22 years ago
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This bug has just returned! I will not accept "remove this file and restart" as a solution if it must be done on a regular basis. Back to 1.0.1 I go... :(
Comment 5•22 years ago
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Can you tell me which file is the problem ? xul.mfl ?
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Comment 6•22 years ago
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I don't know which file it is because I "clean-installed" Moz 1.2.1 and it worked.
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Comment 7•22 years ago
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I'll re-install Moz 1.2.1 and wait until it happens again to try and see what's doing it... Could it be related to Mozilla crashing? Perhaps Moz crashed and corrupted a file? That happens quite often on Mac OS X (and it's something in the Mozilla folder which would suggest it's the mozilla/components/compreg.dat file).
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Comment 8•22 years ago
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Well, I finally got Mozilla to crash :) The file causing this bug is <profile>/xul.mfl. I guess it's being corrupted? If it makes a difference, Mozilla crashed after opening several tabs. The last link I opened was a very large HTML page. I don't know if it was frozen before or after I pressed "Ctrl + F" but after force quitting it (it was consuming RAM and CPU) it was acting as I reported above. Removing xul.mfl seems to have left me with a working Mozilla again.
Comment 9•22 years ago
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Thanks ! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169777 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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