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I find it amusing, "no memory leak" bug, yet its using 131.7Mb (the largest) to load the 6 pages.

31) Safari w/WebKit Nightly r32574

Safari with the latest WebKit nightly

Home Page : http://nightly.webkit.org/

Download size : 18.6M + 14.6M

Blank Page : 30.2M

One Page : 47.1M

Six Pages : 131.7M

Memory Leak Bug : No

Special Notes : Seems WebKit is not happy with those Chinese sites, after opening the two Chinese sites, its CPU usage jumps to 50% (full CPU usage for one processor) and the whole browser becomes very un-responsive.

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Yes, it does seem there isn't that much relevance to it. I'm also (mildly) curious about TT doing memory swapping. I don't read Chinese so it doesn't do me too much good. I also find it interesting that GoSurf comes in second with memory usage yet still has the memory leak bug. Something I'd like to see in this list as well is Maxthon Classic. M2 later versions have better memory management than the early versions, but as far as I remember Classic has much better memory management.

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Is anybody aware of memory leak problems in IE? I've never heard of anything like that. FF2 - yes, not not IE.

To the author: please, clarify this issue (cite a KB article, etc.).

However, it is possible to write webpages that leak memory in any browser: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250448.aspx

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No offensive but....pretty pointless.

RAM is cheap. So what if it takes up 500MB? Most are now getting into thte 4GB range....

It isnt real world....I mean most check other sites, msn.com is possibly optimized for IE, etc.

Thanks for the effort and the tests though :)

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