title: Jquery + Chrome memory issue
body: <p>I'm running this script in Google Chrome while using the Chrome Task Manager to monitor memory usage:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;Test Page&lt;/title&gt;
      &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
      &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  
          var count = 0;
  
          function incrementContent() {
              $("#content").text(count);
              count++;
              setTimeout(incrementContent, 5);
          }
  
      &lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body onload="incrementContent()"&gt;
  &lt;div id="content"&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Memory usage will steadily increase to a maximum of ~31,000K, it then stays at this level.</p>
  
  <p>As far as I can see the loop should simply overwrite the same element in the document.</p>
  
  <p>What is causing the large amount of memory to be allocated?</p>
  
  <p>Using IE 8 I can see no no discernible increase in memory usage while running the script.</p>
  
  <p>With Firefox 3.5.3 memory usage goes through a cycle of increasing by a few megabytes over a minute or so and then falling back its baseline level.</p>