Disappearing text in IE6

I have just found a work-around for a strange bug in IE6, when rendering empty <p></p> elements. It seems to be related to this 'Peekaboo' bug, involving SPAN elements within styled containers, but only the pathology is similar, not any obvious causes.

Basically, an empty <p></p> would cause IE6 to mis-render entire sections of the page, making them flicker in and out of visibility when the chrome was resized, or when the text was highlighted. Firefox rendered the original text without problem.

Memory Use in Firefox

Firefox is great in many respects, but it hogs memory: closing down tabs does not seems to cause Firefox to release memory as you might expect. Once FF has grabbed a few hundred Mb, your PC can slow down noticably. Having to restart the application seems like an indication of a bug to me* (though the FF developers are pretty gung-ho about it).

Here is a collection of tips to help reduce Firefox memory usage - most involve about:config hackery, and some work only on Windows (due to the way in which the Windows kernel will page out memory of minimized applications).

_{Check this out: This behavior has appeared somtime after 1.0 - unfortunately, I can't be more precise... - somtime [sic] after 1.0?? That is a long-running problem.}