Why do browsers leak memory?

A colleague and I were speaking about browsers (using a browser control object in a project), and it appears as plain as day that all browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera) display the same characteristic or side-effect from their usage and that being ‘Leaking Memory’.

Why Firefox caching work will reset in version 3 but version 16 don’t?

I am developing a web application and have the app deployed into Tomcat server. Tested on IE and Firefox and are working fine. Meaning when I close the browser and reopen the app, the data will be reset. When deploy to Websphere, the data is reset only in IE but Firefox don’t. Meaning Firefox will cache the old data. I did try to clear the cache in FF but still failed. I did a test in FF3 and FF16, FF3 will reset the value but FF16 doesn’t, I am just so curious why this could happened?

Does IE have more strict Javascript parsing than Chrome?

This is not meant to start a religio-technical browser war – I still prefer Chrome, at least for now, but:

Does IE have more strict Javascript parsing than Chrome?

This is not meant to start a religio-technical browser war – I still prefer Chrome, at least for now, but:

Does IE have more strict Javascript parsing than Chrome?

This is not meant to start a religio-technical browser war – I still prefer Chrome, at least for now, but:

Does IE have more strict Javascript parsing than Chrome?

This is not meant to start a religio-technical browser war – I still prefer Chrome, at least for now, but:

Does IE have more strict Javascript parsing than Chrome?

This is not meant to start a religio-technical browser war – I still prefer Chrome, at least for now, but:

Does IE have more strict Javascript parsing than Chrome?

This is not meant to start a religio-technical browser war – I still prefer Chrome, at least for now, but:

When opening pdf’s in browser, why is “inspect element” available and “view source” not?

When opening pdf’s in Chrome and Firefox, the “view source” button is greyed out. “Inspect elemet,” however, reveals HTML. Are the browsers simply downloading the file and generating html to display it?

“Open in firefox” should save file in temporary folder but saves it in my download folder

When I select to open a file in Firefox (for example a pdf) it automatically saves the file in my download folder.