Closed Bug 655257 Opened 14 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Memory is not freed after heavy HTML5 video and SVG graphics

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(Core :: General, defect)

2.0 Branch
x86
Windows 7
defect
Not set
major

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RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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(Reporter: dziastinux, Unassigned)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.60 Safari/534.24 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1 Closing the tab does not help to reclaim memory. The only way is to restart Firefox. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open specified url; 2. For requested location enter New York; 3. Launch experiment; Actual Results: High memory usage. Expected Results: Memory reclaimed after
Memory usage screenshot after closing the tab. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/808/memoryusage.jpg/
Attached image Memory usage after tab close (deleted) —
Version: unspecified → 4.0 Branch
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → general
Version: 4.0 Branch → 2.0 Branch
Attached file about:memory figures (deleted) —
I don't see this. According to about:memory, "heap-used" got as high as 340,563,606 bytes, but after the film finished it dropped fairly quickly back down to 62,763,018 bytes.
This problem is solved with Firefox 8.0a2.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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