Resizing using the resize plugin causes a memory leak

When I constantly resize the window with the resize plugin, the resizing eventually delays and according to the chrome memory usage it appears to spike. This is particularly a problem when applied with jquery ui tabs (or other modules that hide/show) as changing tabs triggers the resize event.

When I don’t have it included it looks like this:

I’m using the following plugin version

/* Inline dependency:
 * jQuery resize event - v1.1 - 3/14/2010
 * http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-resize-plugin/
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2010 "Cowboy" Ben Alman
 * Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.
 * http://benalman.com/about/license/
 */

[PlippiePlop]

Why is it still depending on a third party resize plugin?

You can replace the resize minfied source in the flot.resize. This one below prevents event bubbling. It also fixed the "r.w = o !== c ? o : q.width(); " error some people get: https://github.com/garryyao/jquery-resize/blob/124e3a036937849210e64bfd0fbeb4d82bfc854d/jquery.ba-resize.js

[maplemuse]

Part of the problem is that this plugin can trigger repaint, which can expose memory leaks in other plugins. But since it was adding resize that exposed the leak, that’s where it gets reported.