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One of the Firefox developers has whipped up a tool to detect when and where Firefox is leaking memory, for purposes of finding the holes and finally plugging them.
More reading here.
So, what's the catch? The tool will only work on a recent Firefox trunk nightly build (meaning, it won't work with version 1.5.) The good news, however, is that Firefox 2.0 is tentatively scheduled to be released in June, meaning that the sooner these memory leaks are found and fixed, the less leaking there'll be in 2.0.
If you want to help, download the latest trunk build, install it to a separate folder, create a new profile, and test away. The link above also has information on how to report and debug memory leaks once you find them.
More reading here.
So, what's the catch? The tool will only work on a recent Firefox trunk nightly build (meaning, it won't work with version 1.5.) The good news, however, is that Firefox 2.0 is tentatively scheduled to be released in June, meaning that the sooner these memory leaks are found and fixed, the less leaking there'll be in 2.0.
If you want to help, download the latest trunk build, install it to a separate folder, create a new profile, and test away. The link above also has information on how to report and debug memory leaks once you find them.