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ContentPanel contains a lot of 'protected static final ImageIcon' members. This means that even if the welcome page is closed the memory occupied by these objects cannot be reclaimed (it is unlikely that the class will be unloaded).
already fixed as part of fix for issue #75407
verified in CVS.