Issue 178024 in chromium: Google Dictionary extension causes unbounded memory growth.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Status: Unconfirmed
Owner: ----
Labels: Feature-Extensions Pri-2 Via-Wizard Type-Bug OS-Mac

New issue 178024 by fuz...@gmail.com: Google Dictionary extension causes
unbounded memory growth.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178024

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5)
AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.99 Safari/537.22

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Install Google Dictionary extension
2. Go to http://www.chromium.org/ (any page will work) and reload the page
repeatedly.
3. Watch the memory usage increase in developer tools > timeline.

What is the expected behavior?
Memory usage is stable.

What went wrong?
After every reload the memory usage will increase.

WebStore page:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-dictionary-by-goog/mgijmajocgfcbeboacabfgobmjgjcoja

Did this work before? N/A

Chrome version: 25.0.1364.99 Channel: beta
OS Version: OS X 10.7.5

This is likely due to the use of deprecated extension APIs, i.e
chrome.extension.onRequest and chrome.tabs.sendRequest. See:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=114738
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=120531
https://codereview.chromium.org/9965005

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[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Cc: mpcom...@chromium.org

Comment #1 on issue 178024 by pete...@chromium.org: Google Dictionary

extension causes unbounded memory growth.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178024

mpcomplete, could you take a first look at this?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #4 on issue 178024 by ma...@chromium.org: Google Dictionary

extension causes unbounded memory growth.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178024

mpcomplete@: If an extensions is able to make Chrome leak memory this
badly, even with using deprecated APIs, aren't there some Chromium side
fixes needed? Or is the extension ppl's take that the deprecated APIs are
so badly broken that this is normal?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Cc: ma...@chromium.org

Comment #6 on issue 178024 by ma...@chromium.org: Google Dictionary

extension causes unbounded memory growth.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178024

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[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #11 on issue 178024 by Jeffrey...@gmail.com: Google Dictionary

extension causes unbounded memory growth.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178024

I believe it's still there..... And I think you mean the one released
around March 19th.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Labels: Performance-Memory

Comment #12 on issue 178024 by kenji...@chromium.org: Google Dictionary

extension causes unbounded memory growth.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178024

mpcomplete: is there still work to do here? Or should we close?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Owner: kal...@chromium.org

Comment #13 on issue 178024 by kal...@chromium.org: Google Dictionary

extension causes unbounded memory growth.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178024

There is still work to do here, but I'll switch ownership to myself since
it's probably a bindings issue.