[Bug 1018263] [NEW] exhaustive memory leak

[Dan Kortschak]

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

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