I have some code that appears to cause memory to be retained by the browser. I have observed this memory retention in Safari, the nightly WebKit build and also Firefox; all using the latest versions of jQuery and the browsers themselves. 

The code performs a query and then queues up another query to be performed (I'm using a polling-consumer pattern on my backend-resource).

2. // Perform the Ajax request and handle failures.
3. FidsDataController.getFids = function(dataController) {
4. dataController.getFids();
5. };
6. 
   
7. FidsDataController.prototype.getFids = function() {
8. var self = this;
9. 
   
10. $.ajax({
11. url: self.url,
12. dataType: "xml",
13. ifModified: true,
14. timeout: self.timeout,
15. success: function(data){
16. self.updateFidsTables(data);
17. self.lastDataReceived = data;
18. 
    
19. setTimeout(FidsDataController.getFids, 100, self);
20. },
21. error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
22. // If we've previously received data then ensure that the tables continue
23. // to be updated.
24. if (self.lastDataReceived !== null) {
25. self.updateFidsTables(self.lastDataReceived);
26. }
28. setTimeout(FidsDataController.getFids, 5000, self);
29. }
30. });
31. };

Any ideas?

Kind regards,

Christopher