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[Guus Geluk <987060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ubuntu 13.10, FF 28.0. Did some more testing. Problem indeed starts when
you press ALT en type something. Due to my huge bookmark collection hud-
service takes 1.3 GB and unity-panel-service 900MB (FF 800MB after
start) and for some reason it stalls FF eventhough CPU usage is only 3%.
After ending the services FF becomes responsive again.

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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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