Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
mv .mozilla .mozilla-backup # insure it's a vanilla firefox config on intrepid Go to this url http://www.archive.org/stream/titlelistofdocum024685mbp/titlelistofdocum024685mbp_djvu.txt Run top (sort by memory if you wish with M). Watch it rocket to: Mem: 2070924k total, 1671048k used, 399876k free, 20800k buffers Swap: 2586424k total, 156176k used, 2430248k free, 278644k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3820 bill 20 0 1122m 1.0g 21m S 3 51.0 2:22.96 firefox The page has just 20-30 lines of normal looking HTML, and a large (10-20 screens) page of text inside a <pre>. My system is currently patched and: lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 8.10 Release: 8.10 And firefox: firefox: Installed: 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 Candidate: 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 Version table: *** 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 0 500 http://mirror.cse.ucdavis.edu intrepid-updates/main Packages 500 http://mirror.cse.ucdavis.edu intrepid-security/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://mirror.cse.ucdavis.edu intrepid/main Packages I'd expect a page with 10 screens of text to take alot less than 1GB of ram. ** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Firefox explodes to 1.2GB on simple URL. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304942 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
