[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 264879] [GTK] Excessive memory usage from WebKitWebViewSessionState

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264879

--- Comment #3 from Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #1)
> I'm not sure we're even gaining much anything from all this memory use. The
> point of serializing the state of the web view is to be able to restore it
> instantly without having to load everything again. And for Apple ports this
> actually happens, but for GTK/WPE we do a new load anyway to ensure we don't
> display stale content. (E.g. it would be really confusing to open your
> browser to this Bugzilla page and not see new comments posted since the last
> time you manually reloaded the page, which could be days or weeks ago.)

I did some archaeology and found bug #115600 was where we agreed to disable this. I wonder if we should revisit this choice. Anyway, that won't fix this bug; it would only make the excessive memory use worth something. Right now I suspect it's all wasted.

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