Galeon has always leaked like a sieve into XFree86. So much, that I would have to kill it and restart multiple times in a day. (I love this browser, so it's worth it. :)

A few days ago I was forced to change my preferred GTK theme in order to use a poorly written GUI that was unreadable if you had a dark background. I switched over to ~CleanIce temporarily. A day later I realized that it had been over 24 hours since I started using Galeon and the memory usage hadn't even budged===

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The discovery is that the GTK theme has been causing the memory leak problems. Some results of my testing so far:

====Leaking Themes

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Pixmap engine:

bbc - Original theme i've been using. The gtkrc file is based on the ~PurpleTech theme.
~BlueTech - (looks like it also may have based its gtkrc on the ~PurpleTech theme).
dark one - The gtkrc file is based on the ~PurpleTech theme.
~PurpleTech

====Non-leaking Themes

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Eazel-engine engine:

Crux

~IceGradient engine:

~IceGradient

~ThinIce engine:

~ThinIce
~CleanIce
Nebula-dark
~OilyIce
TFT
Thin Darkness

Xeno engine:

1970_Xeno
~AquaXen
Purplephilia
Xeno Gradient
~XenoLight
Xenophilia

Pixmap engine:

Arctic-Pixmap
~BlackBox_
BlueCOSM
Blue Marble
Dark Marble
~eCosm
Infadel
Pixmap
rmDarkness
~SatinBlack
Wireframe
x17-violet

Last Edit: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:08:30 -0800
Revisions: 5

GtkThemeLeaking

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