TSGL: Is IE7 a RAM gobbler?

[EDLYNN]

Hi - 

By accident, I noticed that when IE7 is active, it seems to command all of my RAM for its' pursuits first, and allows the balance to be divided among other programs. It seemed to be causing a general instability with my XPPro SP2 and 512RAM; the cursor danced by itself and then would freeze; there would be no response to clicking....

I didn't believe it possible, and as an outside chance I uninstalled IE7, leaving IE6 remain, and continued to use Firefox as primary browser. No more funny stuff occurred.

Of course, it could have been caused by "updates" which come onboard automatically?

And then again, it may be me and a bit of eye strain.

ED