[OpenLayers-Users] OL and browser cache

[Eric Lemoine]

On Friday, May 14, 2010, Andreas Hocevar <ahocevar at opengeo.org> wrote:
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> On May 14, 2010, at 11:01 , Eric Lemoine wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Andreas Hocevar <ahocevar at opengeo.org> wrote:
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>>> [...] (which can be in your application, but also OpenLayers is known to have some).
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>> Even in FireFox?
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> Mh. Good question. Well, maybe not. But I don't think anybody has ever investigated potential leaks in Firefox. According to http://dbaron.org/mozilla/leak-monitor/, no web application should be able to cause memory leaks in a browser. If it does, then it's a bug in the browser.


Yeah. FWIW, and in case we want to support IE < 8, I have a patch
implementing a "garbage bin element", see
<http://trac.openlayers.org/attachment/ticket/2170/patch-2170-A0.diff>.

Cheers,

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