jargon

Frontend & browser·JavaScript in the browser

memory in the tab keeps climbing across navigations and never comes back down.

Garbage collection

Also calledGC, automatic memory management

The engine reclaiming objects that are no longer reachable from any root. Because reachability is the only criterion, a leak in JavaScript is always something still holding a reference: a listener never removed, a timer never cleared, a closure in a module-level cache. Collection pauses are usually invisible, but a large heap makes them longer and turns them into dropped frames.

Commonly confused with