[Companion] Memory Leak?

[Brian]

For a fair test, you should point the browser to 'about:blank' or a 
local page with no external links.  My.yahoo.com refreshes periodically, 
and displays ads and other dynamic content.   Between these actions and 
the prefetch code, the memory cache will be populated during the test.

Other extensions that refresh from the internet could complicate things 
as well (mail checkers, e.g.).   A true controlled test would require 
comparing the results from a virgin FF install to FF with Companion, 
both opened to 'about:blank:'


Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:

>This morning I started a fresh Firefox 0.10.1 PR session with the latest alpha
>toolbar release.  I did NOTHING except open my home page (my.yahoo.com).
>
>When things started, Task Manager reported about 12MB of memory consumed by
>Firefox.  When I came back about 45 minute later (remember, it was just sitting
>there), it had about 16MB of memory allocated to it.
>
>I'm at work now, but will check again when I get home.
>
>- Jim
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