Bug 31260

Summary: Web Inspector: Main Resources Other than HTML are mis-detected
Product: WebKit Reporter: Denis Ahrens <denis>
Component: Web Inspector (Deprecated)Assignee: Brian Weinstein <bweinstein>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: aroben, bweinstein, joepeck, pfeldman, pmuellr, rik, timothy
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: Mac (Intel)   
OS: OS X 10.6   
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[PATCH] timothy: review+, bweinstein: commit-queue-

Description Denis Ahrens 2009-11-09 09:25:20 PST 
The Web Inspector does not know that an TIFF image with Content-Type: image/tiff is an image and decodes it as text. This leads to a very high memory footprint. In my case it was an image with 2500x2000 pixel which needed more than 800MB memory.

Simply load http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/testpages/dscf1665.tiff and go to the inspector. In the resources you see it is decoded as text.

Tested it on actual Safari and Webkit from today!
Comment 1 Patrick Mueller 2009-11-12 12:33:49 PST 
I did a test of creating a small HTML file that has an <img> with the referenced URL as the source attribute.  That works fine.

bweinstein has determined that the problem is caused when you load an image - any image - or any non HTML thing really - as your main URL in the browser.  It's not actually a TIFF problem.

For instance, you'll see the same thing if you load the following URL in the location bar of the browser:

   http://webkit.org/images/download.png
Comment 2 Brian Weinstein 2009-11-12 14:14:32 PST 
Created attachment 43097 [details]
[PATCH]
Comment 3 Brian Weinstein 2009-11-12 14:26:19 PST 
Landed in r50905.