Public bug reported: If I leave firefox running over night, since upgrading to 13.0.1 Firefox, firefox exhausts all system memory, running with 100% load on one core. This has been noticed on other platforms by other users (for example here http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/930472).
Action: Leave firefox running and go home from work. Expect: Low load and low memory use from firefox when get back in the morning. See: 100% load on one core due to ff, and full memory (in this case 12GB) exhaustion (or worse OOM killer marks on other long running applications, including but not limited to compiz). Extra points: I have small multiples of tabs open, but nothing actually doing anything and not that had caused any problems prior to this version. It seems ff13.0.1 could give NT a run for it's money if it were in the airlines stakes ;| $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Release: 10.04 $ dpkg -l | grep firefox ii firefox 13.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla ii firefox-3.0 13.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla - transitional package ii firefox-3.0-branding 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1 dummy upgrade package for firefox-3.0 -> firefox-3.5 ii firefox-3.0-gnome-support 13.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla - transitional package ii firefox-branding 13.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla - transitional package ii firefox-gnome-support 13.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla - GNOME support $ uname -srvm Linux 2.6.32-41-generic #90-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 22 11:29:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 ** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1018263 Title: exhaustive memory leak To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1018263/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs