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I originally posted this at isaacschlueter.com on Monday, October 23rd, 2006. Memory Leaks. What are they? How do they happen? What can be done about them? This is a great question, and a topic that has a lot of mysticism surrounding it. Like most Javascript issues, there’s been a lot of very bad “authoritative” suggestions. If you are a webdev interviewing at Yahoo!, and I’m in the room, I can guarantee that you will be asked about this topic. In my opinion, memory leaks are one of the most...