Internet Explorer Multiple Tab Slowdown

[bozodos]

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?

[R31Nismoid]

How much ram/memory are they using?

How many tabs are you talking about?

[bozodos]

say 6 tabs, using a total of 640mb of ram, which seems kinda strange, since I've got 2 gig on this computer and 1 gig on my laptop, but the same problem seems to affect both similarly and randomly.

[R31Nismoid]

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

[bozodos]

hmm well the ol laptop here is running 3 tabs with 100mb of memory usage, i'd thought i'd cleared the other one out of the virus it had, perhaps it is still there :S

[boiracer]

IE=crap, firefox is much faster

[trance]

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 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! )

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

Edited September 1, 2009 by trance

[iamhe77]

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.

[pkblade]

Have you updated to the latest browser versions?

In some older versions of IE6/7 & FF 2.xx, I experienced the occasional memory leak.

[bozodos]

yeah latest version of IE at least (not really a fan either).

Should have mentioned I still run teh ueberleet windows xp sp3!