Plugins: Detecting JavaScript memory leaks _javascript tips

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2006-10-18 @ 07:59:29 Author volcano

Javascript memory leaks are not too scary. It will only quietly, slowly drag your browser to the very slow, let you angry outraged, lambaste Microsoft's Junk browser to endanger society. This may not be the browser's fault, probably just because there are some JavaScript memory leaks on the Web page.

Today, we need to arm ourselves, and our own browsers, so that if the browser falls, we can still know who is dead on the page. The following Firefox plugin is recommended to those UI designers or developers:

Leak Monitor

This extension pops up a alert dialog to warn Chrome and extension developers about one particular type of leak. It warns when the chrome Windows close but leave the other code pointing at their JavaScript objects.

Works with:
Firefox 1.5-3.0 All
Thunderbird 1.5-3.0 All

When you visit a Web page, if there is a JavaScript memory leak, this extension will pop up a list of memory leaks. Take the current wordpress backstage, leak monitor is also not polite to play a window, mainly because of the use of the famous prototype.js ...