Steve Smith Reporter
	Description • 19 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

If you load the RealMoney.com website, and leave it long enough (the time is variable), the browser will start leaking memory at an alarming rate.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load RealMoney.com.
2. Wait.
3.

	Jesse Ruderman
	Comment 1 • 19 years ago

Does this also happen if you use a recent trunk nightly build of Firefox?  Trunk nightlies have several fixes for leak bugs that web sites frequently trigger.

	Steve Smith Reporter
	Comment 2 • 19 years ago

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does this also happen if you use a recent trunk nightly build of Firefox? 
> Trunk nightlies have several fixes for leak bugs that web sites frequently
> trigger.
> 
I haven't tried this.  Am using the version that was downloaded automatically on Friday.  I'm new here - where do I find the "trunk nightlies?"

	Jesse Ruderman
	Comment 3 • 19 years ago

http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/ is one place you can find trunk nightlies.  I suggest downloading a zip build (rather than an installer build) so it's less likely to interfere with your use of Firefox 1.5.0.4.

	Steve Smith Reporter
	Comment 4 • 19 years ago

(In reply to comment #3)
I have downloaded Minefield 3.0a1 from BurningEdge and run for a day, and can now say that the memory leak is in there, also.

	Pavel Cvrcek [:JasnaPaka]
	Comment 5 • 19 years ago

No leak with latest trunk for me. No abnormal memory usage. No leak alert with Leak Monitor Extension.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060609 Minefield/3.0a1

Did you try clean profile? Maybe some extension causes your problem.

	Steve Smith Reporter
	Comment 6 • 19 years ago

This is a deceptive bug.  You must leave the browser up some hours before memory starts to build with velocity.  I've seen the memory used build all the way past 300,000k, after starting around 60,000k, with four open tabs.  (At this time, I am uncertain about the coorelation with realmoney.com site.)

	nivtwig
	Comment 7 • 19 years ago

This may be a duplicate of bug 334322 (Flash player leaks memory) since many sites including this one have flash ads. Try with Flash player 9 beta (see the bug comments) that fixes this leak, or install Adblock plus and block all Flash ads using a "*.swf*" filter.

	Steve Smith Reporter
	Comment 8 • 19 years ago

This problem has resolved itself, magically.  I can no longer duplicate it.