This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+14.10.20141003-0ubuntu1
--------------- webbrowser-app (0.23+14.10.20141003-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low [ CI bot ] * Resync trunk [ Alexandre Abreu ] * Add a simple mechanism (simpler than the one already in place) to override user agents for a given webapp. (LP: #1370975) [ Alberto Mardegan ] * Fix handling of host cookies [ Olivier Tilloy ] * Ship a PNG icon instead of an SVG, and install it under the app’s own data dir. (LP: #1365408) * Make an autopilot test more robust by ensuring that the drawer menu is dismissed but not clicked. (LP: #1365304) * Persistently cache favicons on disk to avoid re-downloading them across application runs. (LP: #1340585) * Ensure that at most 2 webviews are instantiated at all times, to reduce memory consumption. (LP: #1376418) -- Ubuntu daily release <ps-jenk...@lists.canonical.com> Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:42:27 +0000 ** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to webbrowser-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1376418 Title: open tabs using too much memory Status in Web Browser App: In Progress Status in “webbrowser-app” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: See initial report on barajas project: https://bugs.launchpad.net/barajas/+bug/1376165 Basically we should free the resources of open tabs when they move to the background during the running of the browser as each tab uses much memory and cause the system with low memory, especially on krillin, to start killing everything with the oom killer. See the details in the barajas report. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/webbrowser-app/+bug/1376418/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp