Inside Firefox: About the Firefox “Memory Leak”

“A lot of people complain about the Firefox ‘memory leak(s).’
All versions of Firefox no doubt leak memory–it is a common
problem with software this complicated. We look to fix the issues
where we can. David Baron and others have done a huge amount of
excellent work in this area.

“What I think many people are talking about however with Firefox
1.5 is not really a memory leak at all. It is in fact a
feature…”

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