Question

Why does jQuery ajax cause a horrible memory leak on Firefox & other browsers?

jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Rqfz7/

If you run this in a browser like Firefox, this causes the memory to climb. Has anyone else seen this? Is there a way to stop the memory leak with jQuery ajax? Thanks

$.ajax({
    url: "http://ws.geonames.org/searchJSON",
    dataType: "jsonp",
    data: {
        featureClass: "P",
        style: "full",
        maxRows: 12,
        name_startsWith: "M"
    },
    success: function( data ) {
        setInterval(function() {
            get_some_stuff();
        }, 1000);
        load_count = load_count + 1;
        $('body h1').text('load_count: ' + load_count);             
    }
})

Answer 1

I think you want to do SetTimeout instead of SetInterval.

Try this..

http://jsfiddle.net/Rqfz7/2/