Submitted by Brianary (not verified) on Wed, 2008-05-21 05:31.
In Firefox, press Shift+Ctrl+T after closing a tab to see why the memory is not released. I personally use this feature all of the time, but to the people who like to keep their RAM investment pristine and unused, there needs to be a UI to disable tab reopening, caching, prefetch, extensions, and plugin cache. Or you could just use K-Meleon (fast native Windows Gecko browser) or Opera.
Be sure it's a leak when you say leak, BTW. I've got a feeling that's actually a cache you're talking about.
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In Firefox, press
In Firefox, press Shift+Ctrl+T after closing a tab to see why the memory is not released. I personally use this feature all of the time, but to the people who like to keep their RAM investment pristine and unused, there needs to be a UI to disable tab reopening, caching, prefetch, extensions, and plugin cache. Or you could just use K-Meleon (fast native Windows Gecko browser) or Opera.
Be sure it's a leak when you say leak, BTW. I've got a feeling that's actually a cache you're talking about.