Closed Bug 393893 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Excessive memory usage and hang when downloading from oldversion.com

Categories

(Core :: General, defect)

x86
All
defect
Not set
critical

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 393368

People

(Reporter: stevee, Unassigned)

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Details

(Keywords: dataloss, hang, regression)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007082603 Minefield/3.0a8pre ID:2007082603 1. New profile, start firefox. 2. Go to http://www.oldversion.com/ 3. Click on Foobar2000 under the Multimedia column 4. Choose an old version to download, eg: Foobar2000 0.8 Beta 8 (8 MB) The download page is the displayed, memory usage (VMem) skyrockets and firefox hangs.
Flags: blocking1.9?
No hang with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7pre) Gecko/2007081203 BonEcho/2.0.0.7pre (although the download doesn't automagically start either) +regression
Keywords: regression
Works (memory doesn't skyrocket): - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007082111 Minefield/3.0a8pre Broken (memory goes moon-bound): - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007082205 Minefield/3.0a8pre Checkins to module PhoenixTinderbox between 2007-08-21 10:00 and 2007-08-22 06:00 : http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=PhoenixTinderbox&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=2007-08-21+10&maxdate=2007-08-22+06&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot
Severity: normal → critical
XP also. Man this bug is a bitch of a bug, I had to pull the battery from my laptop to restart. Added keyword dataloss, unless a require to run firefox is to close all programs before browsing the web?
Keywords: dataloss
OS: Windows 2000 → All
better regression range Works: 20070821_1656_firefox-3.0a8pre.en-US.win32 Broken: 20070821_1710_firefox-3.0a8pre.en-US.win32 Checkins to module PhoenixTinderbox between 2007-08-21 16:56 and 2007-08-21 17:09 : http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?module=PhoenixTinderbox&date=explicit&mindate=1187740560&maxdate=1187741399 Due to bug 389491
Blocks: 389491
Or bug 392973. (My bad, sorry ss!)
No longer blocks: 389491
So i guess this could very well be a dupe of bug 393368.
Severity: critical → blocker
broken: 20070827_1350_firefox-3.0a8pre.en-US.win32 works: 20070821_1502_firefox-3.0a8pre.en-US.win32 checkins http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?module=PhoenixTinderbox&date=explicit&mindate=1188247800&maxdate=1188253979 fixed by / dupe of bug 393368
Severity: blocker → critical
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Sigh. Of course, i meant: broken: 20070827_1350_firefox-3.0a8pre.en-US.win32 works: 20070827_1533_firefox-3.0a8pre.en-US.win32 (too many builds on my desktop)
Flags: blocking1.9?
Resolution: FIXED → DUPLICATE
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