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[Benjamin Kerensa <987060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Other commenters have indicated this happens in other browsers to and
the OP specifically pointed out the leak is in Unity not Firefox as such
marking this incomplete for Firefox unless someone can substantiate that
this is really a Firefox bug which is unlikely.

** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  massive memory leak in unity-panel-service and hud-service when
  invoking the hud on Firefox profiles with large amounts of bookmarks
  LTS 12.04 14.04

Status in Unity HUD:
  Confirmed
Status in The Application Menu:
  Confirmed
Status in Unity:
  Won't Fix
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in hud package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  unity-panel-service and hud-service quickly racks up memory and CPU
  usage until I kill it when invoking the HUD on Firefox. It's taking
  anywhere from a few minutes to half an hour, but it sometimes makes
  the system completely unusable.

  1. run Firefox 12.0 in the foreground
  2. hit Alt to bring up HUD
  3. type any text
  4. select one proposal from HUD
  5. wait for unity-panel-service and hud-service to fill up the remaining RAM and swap space.

  This is due to a high number of bookmarks in a user profile
  (hundreds).

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