[Companion] Memory Leak?

[Ryan McHale]

Hi,

  I am investigating further... I will let you know.

Ryan


On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:26:20 -0700, Brian <mozdev at bkennelly.net> wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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