Memory leak in my angular application when chrome devtools is open

I was debugging my app for a memory leak. I used to do my memory test with devtools open, and it used to retain the components and cause a leak.

I tried closing the devtool and running the memory test, and there is no leak.

Chrome Version 131.0.6778.205 (Official Build) (64-bit).

Can anyone tell me why this happens?.

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