[Bug 429476] [NEW] firefox crash on javascript page

[Chris Bainbridge]

Public bug reported:

On a Thinkpad T42p with 1.5GB memory, no swap space, running Jaunty the
following page causes firefox-3.0.14 to crash:

http://bbarker.co.uk/animate/map.php?file=Edinburgh_to_Holy_Island_cycle.gpx

It appears that memory usage spikes until resident memory is used up.

Additionally, under KDE the desktop bar disappears once firefox has
terminated, and occasionally xorg will also hang.

Clearly firefox should not be using so much memory, Chromium under the
same page shows only around 80MB of resident memory used. It would also
be nice if the KDE desktop and xorg were a bit more resilient to low
memory conditions - one app crashing shouldn't leave the desktop in an
unusable state.

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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firefox crash on javascript page
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