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Bug 752576 - Huge memory usage as you scroll down through Google+ pages
Huge memory usage as you scroll down through Google+ pages
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Backend
3.16.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?...
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Reported: 2015-07-19 00:06 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2015-07-19 16:18 UTC
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2015-07-19 00:06:32 UTC 
Let's use https://plus.google.com/+ZeeshanAli/posts as a test case...
Just loading that page, Epiphany eats ~270 MB of RAM for that WebKitWebProcess.

Then if you start scrolling down, by the time you reach posts dated March 2015 the memory usage has ballooned to ~500 MB and more!

Somehow, Firefox (according to about:memory) manages to keep the page at <100 MB at all times.
Comment 1 Michael Catanzaro 2015-07-19 02:02:04 UTC 
Quite likely a memory leak, or at least a serious inefficiency. Please report this on bugzilla.webkit.org. Thanks!