I'm confused when the author says the DOM is garbage collected only in IE/Blink....

		eatonphil on Aug 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let’s sunset C/C++ I'm confused when the author says the DOM is garbage collected only in IE/Blink. How is DOM memory managed elsewhere? At first guess, I thought the JavaScript runtime (which surely always uses garbage collection) would manage the DOM, but I'm guessing that's not actually the case. Who is typically in charge of memory management at that layer?

Spidermonkey has a GC which manages DOM objects, so yeah, that claim would appear false.