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19th November 2007 - Link Blog

IE ActiveX("htmlfile") Transport, Part II. Fascinating tricks for working around IE memory leaks using explicit CollectGarbage() calls and setInterval() to an empty function.

Posted 19th November 2007 at 11:48 am

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