Firefox Memory Leaks: Feature?

For those Firefox users out there, I just happened to stumble across information regarding the trend of Firefox (including the most recent releases of 2.0.x) to leak memory. Turns out it's a "feature."

Yes, a feature. A feature that was commonly used back in the days of dial up, according to John C. Dvorak, on TWiT: 42. The problem stems form the browser cashing the previous 8 pages as one navigates the page. There is also concern that this feature may be compounded per tab, of which has been refuted by MozillaZine. TO adjust the setting, you need to type in your Firefox address bar: about:config and then set a filter for browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers. Check out the MozillaZine article for more information about what the number means. Set it to "0" to disable the cashing feature.

Do to my seemingly never ending problems with Firefox in Linux ballooning to an extreme in SUSE Linux 9.3, I've decided to give it a try on my Linux machine, and we'll see if this improves performance at all.