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IE and memory !

Discussion in 'Internet Explorer & Microsoft Edge' started by marioz988, 2010/12/11.

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  1. 2010/12/11
    marioz988

    marioz988 Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    There is no chemistry between IE 6,7,8 etc.. and memory usage.
    you have few IE's opened and then you close all but one only and you find that they are still eating your memory in Task Manager.
    To relieve the memory you have to take them by hand or close all IE's and then they will disappear >

    It is a windows bug that till now not solved as it seems.

    thank you if you have comments on this.
     
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    wildfire

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    What particular issues are you seeing? Windows will not release memory until it's required.

    Are you saying that IE ties up memory?

    FWIW I'm not an IE fan but if you do use that browser upgrade to 8.
     
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  4. 2010/12/12
    marioz988

    marioz988 Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Well that was short !
    Don't you know that even Internet Explorer (8) also eats or ties Memory too even when you close all but one !
    If you have a different Version (IE8) please give me directions because mine is IE 8 version 8.0.6001

    thank you.
     
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    PeteC

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    That is not the case on current platforms, e.g. Windows 7 x64.

    Open IE and 2 instances of iexplore.exe *32 are running - one for IE and one for the tab.

    Open one or more tabs and for each tab there is another incidence of iexplore.exe *32 running.

    If you close a tab one incidence of iexplore.exe *32 also closes.

    Close all tabs except the base tab you are back to 2 incidences of iexplore.exe *32 running.

    Close IE and all incidences of iexplore.exe *32 are closed too.

    If you see different to that I would suggest that the fault lies in your OS - XP x64, an OS which never enjoyed much success.

    If you are running the 64 bit version of IE switch to the 32 bit version - there is nothing to be gained from the x64 version and ActiveX is for x64 has limited or no availability.
     
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