Re: Another IE6 memory leak causing IE crash

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From: USCCompEng (USCCompEng_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 06:07:04 -0800

Possibly. It's so hard to tell these days. Most commercial web sites hide a
lot of content using style sheets. They may be using Flash for their stupid
interactive ad banners at the top/side. I notice general browser inflation
with almost any web page I visit, the memory consumption just continues to
grow and grow. For example, after having IE open for a few hours, I went to
CNNSI.com. It was the only page I had open, and Task Manager reported the
usage as 88 Megabytes. I immediately closed IE, relaunched it, went back to
the same page, and my memory consumption was around 40 Megabytes. Now, after
going from there to the MS Support Site, my consumption is about 45
Megabytes, and it will undoubtedly grow. I've seen similar behavior before,
and again, I run Spybot and AVG virus scanner to check for malicious activity.

Can somebody fix a memory leak, or am I just going to have to switch to
Firefox?

"Eric Lawrence [MSFT]" wrote:

> What's the URL? Is the page using Flash or other plugin technology?
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Eric Lawrence
> Program Manager
> Internet Explorer Trust
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> "USCCompEng" <USCCompEng@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:D904A957-C9B0-4E19-AA77-0ABBA70B3541@microsoft.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > Like so many other users, I observe my Internet Explorer memory usage
> > continues to increase over time. This is especially noticable on the ESPN
> > message board, which over time causes my IE to crash, displaying the
> illegal
> > operation/send error report message. I've used Spybot to search for any
> > Adware or hijackers that may be inflating my memory usage, but I come up
> > empty. I'm also running all of the latest security updates for XP SP2.
> >
> > Anyway, apparently I'm not the only one who has this problem. Is there
> some
> > reason why Microsoft can't fix all of the memory holes in this stupid
> > browser?
>
>
>

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