TSGL: Is IE7 a RAM gobbler?

[H Davis]

Ed,

A few posts back Don mentioned that when he opened a tab with MSN search 
it added a lot of memory usage to Maxithon (IE based). I suspect that IE 
7 has a default search built in that is used if you enter a search term 
in the address bar or elsewhere(?). I don't have IE 7 installed. Is it 
possible that each time you open another tab, another copy of whatever 
IE 7 needs for this "feature" is loaded? There might be a way to turn 
off the default search behavior or at least change it to another engine 
as a test.

HTH

H Davis

Ian R-P wrote:
> I did another test, http://www.whatismyip.org thats one simple line of
> coding which is whatever your ip is. IE7 registering at 13,000k without cpu
> usage and as soon as i went to anything like google, yahoo, digg....any big
> websites, it shoots right back up to 45,000k and cpu usage
>
> On 2/7/07, Don Penlington <deepend at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>   
>> Ian wrote:
>>     
>>> i just opened ie let it sit for 2 minutes on
>>> www.yahoo.com only that one tab open and it's sitting at 45,880k and
>>>       
>> using
>>     
>>> 35-45% cpu use.>>
>>>       
>> And Russ wrote:
>>
>> <<I have IE7 open with 5 tabs (5 separate web pages). It is consuming
>> 4008k,
>>     
>>> about 4 MB memory.>>
>>>       
>> I don't know if this is any help, but I have Maxthon which is an IE-based
>> browser using IE6. (I've no wish to update to IE7 yet).
>>
>> When I open 4 web pages, Maxthon sits on about 4500-4800 Kb of memory and
>> zero CPU usage. If I open MSN search page as a 5th tab, memory usage
>> shoots
>> up to 12000-14000Kb and remains there. CPU usage remains on zero, after
>> jumping momentarily to 2%. When I close MSN, memory usage goes back to
>> 4500-4800Kb.
>>
>> All pages are static--ie fully loaded but lying idle.
>>
>> It seems therefore that the web site you have open may well affect the
>> amount of memory consumed quite drastically.
>>
>> I've often thought that some sites seem to need a lot more browser/CPU
>> grunt than others, but until sparked by curiosity after reading your
>> emails, I'd never before bothered to investigate. I've no idea why this
>> should be.
>> Ian--are you certain the pages are fully loaded? Perhaps you'd suspect it
>> with sites like Yahoo--who are probably using push technology which would
>> create a lot of unseen firewall activity. This, in turn, would be
>> communicating with the browser, thus it shows up as browser usage.
>> Maybe---I'm just guessing.
>>
>> If all sites, regardless of color or creed, are consuming inordinate
>> amounts of memory or CPU resources, then there are probably deeper
>> underlying issues on the individual computer.  (eg Nortons security suites
>> would be a primary suspect).
>>
>> I don't know whether the various types of internet connection would have
>> any bearing on this subject.
>>
>> To answer Ed's original query, nothing I've read indicates anything
>> inherent in IE7 by which might be regarded as a resource hog.
>>
>> Don Penlington
>>
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