Does Firefox still have memory leaks?

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Published on 2010-05-13T17:46:10Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 18:04 UTC
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I've had my Firefox 3.6.3 browser consume up to 1.5GB of RAM after a few days of usage without closing it. This is even true when, after a few days of opening/closing tabs, there's only 1 tab open. Does Firefox still have memory leaks?

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