memory hike in netscape on loading framesets in internal frames

scenario
a) create a toplevel frameset containing two frames (frame1 and frame2)
b) Load a page on frame1 from frame2 using open(page,target) (using some button click or whatever)
c) instead of loading a plain html page, load a page containing framesets.
d) note the netscape's current virtual memory usage
e) load the frameset page five to ten times on the same frame.
f) re-note the netscape's current memory usage , you'll find a huge difference between the two.
G) Internet explorer shows no problems at all
f) Found both in unix and nt.

Probably a manifestation of a memory leak in Netscape. I haven't run accross this specific example before, but I find that I have to close Netscape every now end then (after browsing a lot) in order to keep it from crashing. I have 96 MB RAM at work and 192 MB at home, so I know it's not that I don't have enough RAM.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by pieux:
Probably a manifestation of a memory leak in Netscape. I haven't run accross this specific example before, but I find that I have to close Netscape every now end then (after browsing a lot) in order to keep it from crashing. I have 96 MB RAM at work and 192 MB at home, so I know it's not that I don't have enough RAM.[/quote]

Actually what I found on work (NT4 and 256 MB RAM) is that sometimes there suddenly is a "gost" netscape process, which uses all resources. I can kill my borwser and still don't get the resources back. I've got to go to my taskmanager and kill the gost process.

Has anyone seen that before as well?

Bas