Serious memory leak in Firefox 17.0.2esr

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Tested this update for a couple of days, it ended up eating the entire RAM with 4 youtube tabs open.
When it reaches the limit, it’s trying to eat more and that slows down the entire system to a crawl.
Was running with no flash, pure html5 without any plugins.

Rolled back to 10.0.12 from the same source (mozilla ftp) and it seems stable enough.

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Firefox is up to version 18 already. What openSUSE version are you using and why not do a full system update? In KDE do this:

  1. Go to YaST (Enter Root Password) / Software / Software Management and select Options and check Allow Vendor Change.
  2. Again, still in Software Management select Package / All Packages / Update if newer version available and press the **Accept **button on the bottom right.

Thank You,

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Currently openSUSE 12.2 with latest-10.0esr, but it only leaks with 17.0.2.
Not using the rpm from the repos as it seems rather unstable, there are problems such as this for example.

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IMHO the vast majority here simply use Fx from the standard non-OSS repo and the Update-non-OSS repo. This was updated to 18.0 a short while ago. Nobody here reported your memory leak with any of those versions. Thus I guess that the only advice that you will see here is: use the Fx that comes standard with openSUSE 12.2. Or at least test if you can recreate your problem with it.

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I wasn’t aware it’s actually non-OSS. Anyway, esr version is used in SLED so I just thought it might be relevant to openSUSE in some way.
Posted it to make sure it’s been looked into before the latest esr is included into a standard SLED update pool.

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In that case you are completely wrong here. These are the openSUSE forums. The SLES/SLED forums are at: https://forums.suse.com/

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