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Why is there a memory leak?

AnonymousUser
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There appears to be a large memory leak in the program. Closing tabs does not reduce memory consumption.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== 4 months ago

There appears to be a large memory leak in the program. Closing tabs does not reduce memory consumption. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == 4 months ago

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Disable the Skype extension for Firefox.