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well I've tried disabling all the unneccessary Browser Helper Objects, but at times I still seem to get slowness or timeouts from multiple tabs of IE, and often it dosen't feel like a 1.5 connection, more like a 256k one! It's strange though because downloads and games are top notch, its just IE / Firefox! has anyone encountered a similar problem?

640mb - with IE and 6 tabs? Jesus... what sites are you looking at?

That is HEAPS, wouldnt surprise me if you are running low on RAM by the sound of it.

Use google chrome or firefox - i rarely see mine go above 200mb with heaps of tabs

ie, ff, and chrome stack per tab/window, chrome being the worst. if you are running vista this will be because of dwm.exe. the way dwm is utilised with windows 7 is far more improved and should abolish the issue you are having. just for shits and giggles (if you have vista ofc), open task manager (start -> "taskmgr.exe", or ctrl+shift+esc), and see the utilisation of dwm.exe. then, open up tabs or windows and check that usage again :D i use ie8 and it does the job nicely. the only reason you should have gone to firefox or opera was because of the unfortunate variations of css before rfc implimentation. css3.0 is being worked on atm and all browsers are to be designed to view the page in the exact same way (thank goodness for making 2/3 versions of sites with js to direct them to the appropriate one! :D )

ps: remove aero theme and see if that fixes your issue :)

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640mb - with IE and 6 tabs? Jesus... what sites are you looking at?

That is HEAPS, wouldnt surprise me if you are running low on RAM by the sound of it.

Use google chrome or firefox - i rarely see mine go above 200mb with heaps of tabs

+1 for Chrome.

I have up to 13 tabs open at any one time on a 2GHz Pentium with 1GB or ram... with Outlook open all day.

No real issues. Much faster and more stable than IE7 or 8. No probs with website display like I do with Firefox and Opera.

The only problem I have encountered is if I try to upload images to Photobucket. It states 100% complete, but just won't finish for Chrome.

IE, no problem with Photobucket.

I believe it is an issue Chrome has with Java.

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