Status of the Firefox memory leak?

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 13:26 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> It doesn't seem to be a Dapper-specific, but a problem in general with
> the Firefox 1.5 series, combined with leaks when using gmail, specific
> plugins, etc.
> 
> At a personal level, I have had some success of keeping my FF ram
> usage low by keeping my number of extensions small,  and disabling
> that  browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers setting, and restarting
> Firefox at least once daily.   That seems to have decreased the number
> of time I have seen Firefox really start leaking memory suddently;
> something really annoying on my 256mb laptop. 

I am not using any extensions (there are Flash ads on the site though),
and it's *definitely* not the well known "save a copy of every rendered
page in RAM" problem.

I was more wondering what happens if it's unresolved by the Dapper
release date.  Do we ship with a known broken browser?

Lee