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Memory leaks. are they fixed and people just keep on saying that they are not, or are there still memory leaks?

There are no significant memory leaks that we know of, and overall memory usage is quite good.. but there still might be memory issues. A 'memory leak' happens when a program reserves some memory space, and then loses all ways to access it without releasing it. These are pretty easy to find and take care of.

Much harder is when a program reserves some memory space, and something still holds on to it -- even if it's not being actively used. For example, a web app may load a bunch of data off the network and keep it around in case you click a button on the page to have it be displayed... and then keep loading more data every hour (for example, to make sure you have the latest info). If you keep your browser and this tab open, you will see your browser's memory usage go up and up and up. There's no real leak, but memory isn't being used efficiently -- and it's not the browser's fault! As web apps become more complex, this kind of stuff is becoming very common. You can get an idea of what's going on by looking at 'about:memory' in Firefox, which lists all sorts of interesting memory data.

I keep my browser open forever, other than for updates, so I see this stuff frequently. Usually just closing tabs that I suspect are doing this causes memory usage to drop pretty quickly.

If you could impliment one feature what would it be? Be crazy.

Vertical tabs ;)

Tree Style Tab unfortunately has a lot of issues; there's a Vertical Tabs addon that I recently took over to make compatible with nightlies that gets the job done, but I'd like to see it in the core :)