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If you have ever used Firefox for extended periods of time, you know that it is prone to periodic UI thread stalls once the session becomes sufficiently long lived. Worse still, it seems as if extensions such as Firebug make matters even worse.

I have created a test case that demonstrates this bug.

It is interesting because it seems like a fairly big hole in Firefox’s garbage collector since the memory wasted by all the DOM object allocations is never reclaimed. The allocations are not particularly complex from a GC perspective either since they are non-cyclical (I think!) and low reference count.

This particular bug is probably my biggest grievance with Firefox at this particular moment.

Why you should not use inline styles for the CSS Sliding Doors technique.

Updated: The path to the Sliding Doors example has been updated.