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    I worked in the IE team for 18+months some years ago. I never really understood the object ref-counting system implemented by IE to try to make memory usage work. This system doesn't use garbage collection, so the memory issues are very hairy, made even worse by badly behaving apps that relied on legacy broken behavior (release an object and expect it to still be there!). All this 'Web 2.0' stuff makes it easy to find the holes in the plan that was formulated back in the late 90's