I changed one of the tests in attach_to_new_window_test.rb to :


 def test_simply_attach_to_new_window
   IE.attach_timeout = 0.2
   100.times{
   $ie.link(:text, 'New Window').click
   ie_new = IE.attach(:title, //)
   #assert(ie_new.text.include?('PASS'))
   ie_new.close
       }
 end

and replaced the pass.html by a bigger html page.

Running this test with watir on windows shows that the IE process gets bigger and bigger, whereas running the same test manually doesn't show this behaviour.

I suspect that there's a memory leak in Watir, because I also see this problem in real world tests.

Regards,
Markus