"Firefox 3 was rewritten and should no longer have memory leaks."
That should highly probably be: "Firefox 3 was rewritten and most memory leaks are fixed." Even Firefox 3 can use up a lot of memory after a while of browsing. On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:51 PM, NichlasBrodegaardLarsson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Firefox 2 has major problems with memory leaks, when many pages has > been loaded. How about try running your monitor script in another > browser ? > > Firefox 3 was rewritten and should no longer have memory leaks. It is > still in beta stage though... > > On Jun 12, 4:01 pm, Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I don't really know if this is a jQuery issue or a Firefox issue... I > > have an internal status page that polls a monitoring system every few > > seconds to fetch a JSON[0] document with details of current network > > status. I use that to populate a <ul>, having first call .empty() on > > it. > > > > Overnight, my FF process has grown to 1.5GB! > > > > Is there something I need to do or avoid doing to stop this? The page > > is reloaded (using meta refresh) every 5 minutes, so whatever it is > > survives across page reloads. > > > > Can anyone recommend any article or guidance to avoid this type of > > problem? Googling seems to only turn up things for browser end-users. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Howie > > > > [0] actually, not quite, thanks to the clunky scripting language in > > the monitoring system, so I tweak it afterwards. > -- Isaak Malik Web Developer
