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The web player leaks memory

Yxven — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 16:50:48 GMT

After a couple of hours playing spotify with firefox, firefox is sucking 2gb+ of memory, and it just gets worse with more usage. I know it's spotify because I downloaded an addon that says which tab is using the memory.

Re: The web player leaks memory

ayylmao7077 — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 05:11:07 GMT

I have a similar issue, only it goes up to 3GB + within 20 minutes or so of use on large playlists (In particular the 170+ song Coachella 2016 playlist). I can't enjoy music anymore because I have to force-kill the firefox process to free the memory every 20 minutes. I'm using linux with firefox, if that makes a difference.

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sgsfbvgsfvfrghe — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 19:19:51 GMT

Also noticed this with Chrome on Windows, growing at a size of about 25MB / minute for me.

EDIT: Only growing while music is playing (I use the radio exclusively, not sure if other modes are also affected).

Re: The web player leaks memory

sgsfbvgsfvfrghe — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:33:43 GMT

I looked a bit more into this after reading reports of the VW advertisement causing issues. After de-activating my ad-blocker (uBlock origin), memory seemed a lot stabler.

Re: The web player leaks memory

j3mdamas — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 20:06:02 GMT

I have this problem too.

Chrome and Firefox, both are giving me the same problem.

I use Ghostery and not AdBlock.

Re: The web player leaks memory

ExitStatus — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 21:30:08 GMT

Disabling the ad-blocker does not resolve the issue. Memory usage still grows rapidly after only a few songs. I'm using Firefox 45.1.0 on Linux since I can't use the client on my distro.

Re: The web player leaks memory

Fuzzyma — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:03:59 GMT

same for me. FF 47.0 takes over 3GB until it starts responsing very slowly. At this point FF crashes or I manage to close it (which takes several minutes).

Thats a no go! seriously - fix this. Its web! Your user dont even have to install a new version. All they have to do is strg + F5.

PS: While writing this my memory consumption raised from 1,5GB to 2,2GB

Re: The web player leaks memory

douzee — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:05:27 GMT

Disabling adblock plus on firefox 48.0 on spotify domain solved the issue for me

Re: The web player leaks memory

j3mdamas — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 21:40:54 GMT

this is not a solution

Re: The web player leaks memory

j3mdamas — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 21:40:55 GMT

this is not a solution

Re: The web player leaks memory

j3mdamas — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:07:22 GMT

It seems like it got solved somehow. I no longer have memory issues and Spotify streams nicely.

Re: The web player leaks memory

richchain123 — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:33:35 GMT

It's firefox, I've used it in chrome for 48 hours... and nothing weird happened, it didn't suck my RAM or anything similar.