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[Guus Geluk <987060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Using 13.10. I have thousands of bookmarks in firefox 28.0. I disabled
the unity extensions in Firefox. Most of the times it works okay, and I
did not have the problem on earlier versions of Ubuntu.  But lately Hud-
service and unity-panel-service reach gigabytes of ram, totally stalling
my computer. I do not understand what triggers it. It even happens if I
did not use the HUD.  Unity Panel service now is more than 1 gig and I
cannot end the process anymore in system monitor.

In privacy settings I disbabled: 
- use of file and app usage
- internet search results
- I excluded the firefox webbrowser

So why is it still collection browser information?

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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

Status in The Application Menu:
  Confirmed
Status in Unity:
  Won't Fix
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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