Comment 20 for bug 608538

This memory leak is fixed in the daily build beta – they're at version 20.0.1128.0 build 135549, while Ubuntu only has version 20.0.1132.47 Ubuntu 12.04 build 144678. Being more than 30 versions behind.

Every page reload takes some memory until all memory is exausted. Closing tabs doesn't free any memory until all instances of the process are closed. Under certain circumstances, closing chromium-browser leads to an out of memory condition, reporting the browser crashed (it indeed did, but while at the process closing down all instances. This is invisible to the user.).

Maybe these bugs are fixed for the later versions (I am sure they are).

BTW: the beta-ppa for this browser states to hold daily builds. I can't confirm this. The last build installed by this channel is now about six months old – far form daily! – if it would be build daily the ppa where expected to hold version 20.0.1128.0 build 135549 as of Nov. 6th, 2012 1:13 CET.