I have noticed that my application is causing a substantial memory leak in firefox (and only firefox for some reason).
I imagine this would be caused by my jQuery code. Of which there is a huge amount.
My understanding is that Firebug, with which I am quite familiar with, can be used to pinpoint memory leeks in your code.
However I have done quite a bit of reading on this subject across the last week and while I see that by profiling the memory heap you can identify a leak I am still completely unclear as to how I would actually pinpoint the function or functions in my code that are causing the issue.
Can anyone give me any advice or provide me with some good resources on the issue as it relates to jQuery. Also are there any good tools out there other than firebug to make this kind of debugging easier.
Many thanks.
I use a tool called sieve to check for javascript memory leaks, it along with some others are talked about in this msdn article.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2007/11/29/tools-for-detecting-memory-leaks.aspx
Generally though, you need to isolate bits of scripting, cutting away working pieces until you find the section that is causing the problem, and then run a profiler, like the one in firebug.
In my jQuery I’ve found that mishandling dialog box’s where the problem in every case.
Oh and make sure your running the latest jquery code, there might be a bug fix your missing.