Yeah, it is a good point. It is probably leaking the XMLHttpRequest objects, or the DOM responses. We can probably do a quick fix in the extension, but long term, this is really a webkit/v8 problem, not an extensions problem (same would occur with web pages).
- a On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Julien Tillay <[email protected]> wrote: > this extension use the network every 5s and there is a big memory leak at > the same time. > every 5s, this extensions grow up, and after few hours, 90MB used ! > for a small icon and a xhr... > I know that this extension is for test purpose, so I report the problem. > I just hope that this extension system, with time, will not kill the browser > with too much memory consumption. > (3 tabs with 5 extensions[gmail checker included] = ~350MB -> scary) > -- > Julien TILLAY > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
