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rahuljawale: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 2; Joined: Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:51 pm

beatthegmat.com memory leak in firefox

by rahuljawale » Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:54 pm

beatthegmat.com has memory leak problem on Firefox 7 and 8. Issue is reproducible on Windows and Ubuntu equally.

Check the attached screenshot.

P.S. This is my first post on beatthegmat.com

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by beatthegmat » Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:49 pm

WOW, thank you for letting us know! I am sending this to our developers right now.

By the way, welcome to Beat The GMAT, since that was your first post.

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by DavidP » Tue Nov 15, 2011 9:14 pm

Hi Rahul,

Thanks so much for the bug report! Can you please share with us what specific steps you did to make the memory leak happen? Thanks!

David

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by rahuljawale » Tue Nov 15, 2011 9:50 pm

Hi David,

I used Firefox 8 on Ubuntu to reproduce the issue. However the same problem is seen even on Windows 7 with Firefox 8.

1. Open a forum page : https://www.beatthegmat.com/books-on-shelves-t48754.html
2. Leave FF idle for sometime.
3. Return and check the memory usage.

Let me know if there is anyway I can generate logs or debug report for you.

P.S. I work as a QA Engineer in one of the database companies.

-Rahul

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by DavidP » Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:46 pm

Thanks for the details Rahul. I'll check it out. Good to know that we have good QA engineers in our community. FYI, my first real engineering job was leading a QA team for my startup back in 1999.