Thanks, Ricardo. I'll give that a look.
On Jan 30, 12:31 pm, Ricardo Tomasi wrote:
> jQuery will remove all event handlers on unload to avoid memory leaks.
>
> You should consider event delegation, see the docs for
> live():http://docs.jquery.com/Events/live
> It will speed up your loading/unloading times considerably.
>
> cheers,
> - ricardo
>
> On Jan 30, 2:58 pm, dberthia wrote:
>
> > I've got a jQuery 1.2.6 script that attaches a click handler to every
> > hyperlink on a page. We have a small number of pages where the number
> > of link are massive (5000+, and yes I know this is ridiculous). On
> > these pages, when I try to navigate AWAY from them, Firefox will be
> > unresponsive for a couple of minutes. I've determined the length of
> > the delay is directly proportional to the number of my click handlers.
> > I've tried 1.3.1, but have gotten only marginally better results. I
> > don't see the issue in IE or Safari. Any ideas?
>
> > I've tried doing a manual unbind on the links in window.onunload, to
> > no avail.
>
> > - Dave
