> Then why does it use 1/3 as much memory to display the same pages and > tabs when I kill it and restart it? That's a symptom of memory leakage.
Not necessarily, no. It may consciously decide to hold on memory that was used in the past in order to avoid having to re-allocate and re-initialize it next time. Some of that is simply "the cache", but there are all kinds of things like that. A leak would be if the amount of memory use increases each time you visit a given page, even though that page always has exactly the same content. Stefan