On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:42:55AM +0200, Veljko wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:34:22AM +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: > > And what about the version numbers for iceweasel and firefox? > > Debian: > iceweasel -v > Mozilla Iceweasel 10.0.12 > > Slackware: > firefox -v > Mozilla Firefox 21.0 > > Firefox I downloaded from mozilla.org and I started on Debian: > ./firefox-bin -v > Mozilla Firefox 21.0 > > > > That behavior is not a good thing, but it is not very surprising to me. > > Not good, indeed. This is very important peace of software everybody use. > > > It seems that iceweasel is storing all images as X pixmaps, so the > > memory requirements of the Xorg server grow. Maybe other browsers tend > > to avoid the issue by not loading all the images in memory > > simultaneously. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know if this > > is going to stay as is, or if there are plans to reduce that ram > > compsumption. > > Firefox I downloaded behaves exactly like Iceweasel, but only on Debian. > That's why I'm not sure if problem lies only there. If picture is loaded in > RAM by browser, why to duplicate it in Xorg? > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130528084255.ga3...@angelina.example.com > I don't think this is an Xorg issue, just tried the webpage you suggested on Firefox in Windows 7, same issue, rapid memory usage growth. Seems more like a Firefox issue, can you try a Nightly [0] build and see if the issue still exists?
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