[Companion] Memory Leak?

[Brian]

Brian wrote:

> Shane Volpe wrote:
>
>> I suspect the size of increase is dependent on what is
>> on your companion (# of bookmarks, personalized
>> buttons that are selected...)
>> Regards,
>> Shane  
>>
> That makes sense.  It is possible that we are retaining a reference to
> something that we thought was going out of scope.  That would defeat the
> Javascript garbage collection.


OK, I tried with both Netscape 7.2 and Firefox 1.0PR, and I cannot 
recreate the symptoms.  I opened each browser to an 'about:blank' page 
and refreshed the toolbar manually.  The memory usage reported by 
Windows task manager went up, but then after a short time, dropped back 
to the original values.  I repeated the test many times.  I did not 
write down the value in Netscape, but in FF, it would drop back to 
22,196K every time. 

Is this a real problem, is it just that the Javascript engine is slow to 
recover the storage, or is it an interaction with something else?