User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; pl-PL; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060415 Firefox/1.5.0.2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; pl-PL; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060415 Firefox/1.5.0.2 when copying text bigger than 500kB fx creates new file in /tmp - clipboardcache[-X] which is 2x bigger than selection and never deleted Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.open file bigger than 500kB 2.select all, copy to clipboard (creates file clipboardcache-X in /tmp) 3.close fx Actual Results: file clipboardcache is still present in /tmp Expected Results: delete that file at exit or when it's not needed (but i would prefer no to create that file at all...) this bug was first reported in bug 289897 and confirmed od windows
Confirmed, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060425 BonEcho/2.0a1 ID:2006042512 Following my description on bug 289897, I've just created 40 clipboardcache files (2mb each) within less than a minute, by flipping between two tabs. At least the memory leak is fixed. Still unanswered, but related: Why does the clipboard content get read on page loading and tab flipping at all?
This bug still seems to exist in current Firefox. I agree with the original reporter that ideally Firefox should not create this file at all. Barring that, Firefox should at least clean it up afterward.
(In reply to Josh Triplett from comment #2) > This bug still seems to exist in current Firefox. To clarify: this bug still seems to exist in Firefox 11.
I just discovered some files /tmp/clipboardcache* and stumbled upon this bug, so it's still alive with firefox 16. And the file has 00 between each byte, which explain the double size.
still exists in firefox 30 beta 9 (I had to delete the file manually, good thing my %temp% is on a ramdrive) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0
Still happening in Firefox 35.0 release: after selecting and copying some text, several clipboardcache-x files are created in /tmp, up to 2M in size each. They are not deleted after closing Firefox .
Firefox became non responsive and I had to end task from Task Manager. it's still happening in Firefox 37.0.1 on Windows 8.1, in user's TEMP folder there are 500s files created each with size of 6 MB. So total size was around 3GBs.
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