It doesn't seem like subresource loading is getting throttled, so if a script changes the 'src' attribute on an image repeatedly, it chews through memory and eventually crashes. Test case will follow.
Created attachment 26780 [details] Causes unbounded memory growth This test burns through memory (then crashes) in safari. In IE7 and FF3, the memory consumption levels off.
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See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5688
This is also the cause of a significant Chromium memory leak and crash: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=36142
See also https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31253