TSGL: Is IE7 a RAM gobbler?

[jonpan]

Hi Russ,

You hit the nail on the head again!

I installed IE7 on my experimental disk and promptly found IE (No Addons) 
under System Tools. It also appears now in Event Viewer with 'custom log 
error records'.

Perhaps I should move to IE7 now, after trying it out.

Yet another question cleared up - thanks!

John
Od/G

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From: "Russell W. Coover" <coover at fastmail.fm>
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Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 12:42 AM
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Hi Jon,

I actually do find "Internet Explorer (No Addons)" in my System Tools
folder. I do visit that folder occasionally, often enough to know what is in
it, and have never seen it before today. It has (evidently) been placed
there recently by some upgrade that I did from "Microsoft Update" or,
perhaps, from the upgrade to IE7.

If you don't have it, then I assume you haven't applied one or more of the
Microsoft (or Windows) Updates. It may have been one of the "Optional"
updates that you see when you click "Custom". Or perhaps you haven't updated
to IE 7. In either case, it is new and not everybody will have it.

Russ Coover

I am trying to find myself. If you see me before I do, please ask me to wait
until I return.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:20 AM
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Hi Michael,

Can you check that you really find IE in that chain you mention? Even
through Accessories I can't find IE in System Tools. Other listers with XP
Pro SP2?

Thanks.

John
Od/G


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Sweeden" <michaelsweeden at comcast.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:27 AM
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Timely enough, there is a blurb on page 92 of the latest PC World Magazine
warning about add-ons, and showing that using some of the add-ons reviewed
in the magazine can add, according to the chart, 20MB of RAM overhead to IE.
So apparently the web page, the running Active-X controls, and the add-ins
can all have an impact on RAM usage. It also mentions how to start up IE
with no add-ons: Start>All Programs>System Tools>Internet Explorer (No
Addons).

Michael

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Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:05 PM
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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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>> http://users.tpg.com.au/deepend/index1.html
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