{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Polymer/polymer/issues/2452","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Polymer/polymer/issues/2452/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Polymer/polymer/issues/2452/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Polymer/polymer/issues/2452/events","html_url":"https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/issues/2452","id":107244995,"number":2452,"title":"Memory garbage collection","user":{"login":"ahedderich","id":3854902,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3854902?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ahedderich","html_url":"https://github.com/ahedderich","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ahedderich/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ahedderich/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ahedderich/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ahedderich/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ahedderich/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ahedderich/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ahedderich/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ahedderich/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ahedderich/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-09-18T17:36:30Z","updated_at":"2015-09-18T17:36:30Z","closed_at":null,"body":"While developing today i noticed that my Polymer powered page had an enormous hunger for memory after manually refreshing the tab several times.\r\nI noticed the same behavior on https://www.polymer-project.org/summit (and all Poylmer sites i tested for that matter)\r\nBoth in vanilla Firefox and Chrome, after a few reloads, memory usage already exceeds 200Mb with open end, depending of the reload count. I pushed it over 500Mb and after 15 minutes idle tab, it didn't show any sign of reduction.\r\nSame test with GitHub frontpage: While memory usage increases after a few moments the GC kicked in and reduced a lot.\r\n\r\nIs there a special reason why this happens?"}}