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Must not do this. Can keep a List<URL>, for example, and recreate the closed projects on demand using ProjectManager.findProject, but in general they should be freely collectible.
...and should not load the projects eagerly on startup, either.
Checking in projectui/src/org/netbeans/modules/project/ui/OpenProjectList.java; /cvs/projects/projectui/src/org/netbeans/modules/project/ui/OpenProjectList.java,v <-- OpenProjectList.java new revision: 1.19; previous revision: 1.18 done Fixed the RecentProjectList. But the look into optimizeit still shows the closed projects are not GCed. Will attach screenshot of the profiler output.
Created attachment 17139 [details] Profiler output
Changing summary
Reported problem should be fixed, you are seeing something else.
Reported problem fixed.
Restoring original summary, should not have been changed.
Ok, I filed the new issue as #47957.