Huge Browser RAM leak issue, how was this never mentioned before?
- To be honest I would see this as an issue if I didn't routinely see this behavior with desktop Firefox and chrome. Both have memory leaks if I leave them open for extended periods of time and just open and close tabs.
I would expect chrome to behave similarly to the BB10 browser as both are website based. I have seen the behavior described where after extended use without entirely closing the browser it gets slow and starts to reload almost all the tabs open. I just set it to reopen everything as was when I last closed and restart the browser. That's my solution. I've just grown to accept the issue as a general browser issue. The irony is Internet Explorer seems to be the only bulletproof browser for me right now.
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Speaking of page file (SWAP), I don't think BB10 or Android has that, and if I am right, why not?
Posted via CB1009-26-14 07:20 AMLike 0 - A leak is memory that's never released because it hasn't been allocated / freed / kept track of correctly.
Nothing I've read in this thread suggests a genuine leak, just a memory management strategy that some people don't agree with.
Hard to please everybody
(No doubt there are plenty of actual leaks in modern browsers of course, this just isn't good evidence that's the cause)09-26-14 08:48 AMLike 0 - OK, mods please change the title. Why is everyone so picky about the "leak" term?
OK, it's not a memory leak as per the programming language dictionary, a problem still exists though.
The fact that the browser behaves different ways during different stages of the app but with same current conditions is the proof.
Posted via CB1009-26-14 09:02 AMLike 0 -
- Hopefully one of your always opened tabs is not CrackBerry itself. I have an issue now with Chrome on my PC gobbling RAM if I leave CrackBerry open long enough. Seems to be a Flash issue since Flash often crashes out and Chrome tells me. Sometimes I have to kill the chrome.exe process it gets so bad. The other day a single browser instance was using 1.5GB of RAM before I killed it.
So maybe it is the site you are always using and not the OS.?09-26-14 11:22 AMLike 0 - Your header is clickbait that exaggerates the scale of the problem for attention.
If you'd said "Help, Browser Closing Sites" or something similar I'd have had a lot more sympathy - it's irritating when things don't work as you'd like - but I still attempted to understand what your real issue is, as have other people.
It isn't a massive systemic problem as you wanted people to believe in your title, but you've still had help and attention. If you can't be bothered to be accurate and consistent in your terms and believe it's other people's responsibility to decode it, you're entitled to your opinion, just as I'm entitled to ignore it.Joshu42 likes this.09-26-14 12:57 PMLike 1 -
Posted via CB1009-26-14 02:41 PMLike 0 -
Posted via CB1009-27-14 05:19 AMLike 3 - Thanks, already have a second phone. Thinking of adding a third. Went today to see the 3GB RAM LG G3 - the "smart thing" had over 1GB of free memory and still reloaded web pages and apps. I don't get it, why no one can make a true multitasking phone. BB10 is the best we get so far but still isn't perfect. Ah how i miss Maemo
Posted via CrackBerry App09-27-14 05:49 AMLike 0 - Hm, never seen that on Windows 7. I work on 3 screens, each with IE, Firefox, Chrome. Sometimes each browser will have 20+ tabs open (I know I know, I am a resource hog). The reason why tabs don't reload on Desktop OS generally is the amount of RAM + page file.
Speaking of page file (SWAP), I don't think BB10 or Android has that, and if I am right, why not?
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Posted via CB1009-29-14 08:03 PMLike 0 -
However, I wouldn't mind burning microSD cards every quarter for better multitasking. The real problem might be speed through.
Posted via CB1009-30-14 01:42 AMLike 0 - Saw another thread which reminded me of this one -
I still have this problem and I can see it is even worse and super annoying on 10.3.1.
The browsers reports up to 350 MB RAM in device manager (sometimes with only one tab open currently) and when killing it actually frees up more (like 500).
Basically, through out the day, when I open [many] tabs and later on close it, browser doesn't frees the RAM for those closed tabs.
For the smart ones above, if this wasn't a leak, I wouldn't be getting the "Low memory warnings " and I get those almost daily. Flash is gone and this problem still exists.
Wouldn't be that bid of deal if the browser wasn't logging me out from the sites of logged in to after restarting it.
Posted via CB1003-22-15 04:52 AMLike 0 - Saw another thread which reminded me of this one -
I still have this problem and I can see it is even worse and super annoying on 10.3.1.
The browsers reports up to 350 MB RAM in device manager (sometimes with only one tab open currently) and when killing it actually frees up more (like 500).
Basically, through out the day, when I open [many] tabs and later on close it, browser doesn't frees the RAM for those closed tabs.
For the smart ones above, if this wasn't a leak, I wouldn't be getting the "Low memory warnings " and I get those almost daily. Flash is gone and this problem still exists.
Wouldn't be that bid of deal if the browser wasn't logging me out from the sites of logged in to after restarting it.
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Open a tab, close the tab. If memory is never ever released ever again, you'd be able to see memory never getting freed if you opened and closed tabs and see this problem with one tab open, not many. You're just using lots of memory.
Posted via CB1003-22-15 04:16 PMLike 0 - Again, what you think of a leak, isn't a memory leak.
Open a tab, close the tab. If memory is never ever released ever again, you'd be able to see memory never getting freed if you opened and closed tabs and see this problem with one tab open, not many. You're just using lots of memory.
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Posted via CB1003-22-15 04:40 PMLike 0 -
- What are the 4 services? If they are actively passing traffic and keeping the login active, it shouldn't matter.03-24-15 12:04 PMLike 0
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