zaldy
join:2007-12-07 | reply to devicemanage
Re: [IE] IE8 - Anyone having intermittent failures to load webpa
Playing Mafia Wars with 5 browsers open on Facebook hogs more memory on my system as opposed to when using Firefox.
Aside from that I don't see any problem with IE8. |
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ninn
join:2008-01-26 | no problem here |
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Link Logger
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-29
Calgary, AB
 ·Shaw
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5? One of the things that I'm starting to hate about Windows 7 is just how many IE sessions I can open without any problems as being kind of a researcher type I end up with tons of sessions each with multiple tabs etc, I'm becoming awash with my own information. There are tons of features which let me find sessions, tabs, follow thought threads etc, but really the easier it is, the more I just create open sessions etc and the further awash in information I become.
Some days I'm afraid to log off and lose all my 'found' information, and my 'favorites' heck that is more like the library of congress then a favorites list anymore (thanks to live mesh my favorites follows me around which is great). I think we are going to need something way more then 'favorites' to organize our 'found' sites.
I'm lucky in that my ISP is both very fast and very reliable so I never seem to have many problems loading sites. This was a link that someone listed awhile ago on DSLReports that I nabbed for testing if sites were down for me or everyone:
»downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
If you have any sites that you would like tested by other people here, I'm sure some folks would be happy to take a quick look at them for you.
Blake
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Vendor: Author of Link Logger which is a traffic analysis and firewall logging tool |
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Bink
join:2006-05-14
Denver, CO | reply to zaldy
IE8 uses more memory than Firefox because IE8 tends to open web pages in separate IE processes. This allows for one or more tabs to fail without taking the entire browser with it. Chrome also does this/has this feature—Firefox does not. |
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Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
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"awash with my own information". That is hilarious...but I have the same thing happen...just not with IE8 as it crashes a lot. I don't want to lose my "fabulous" information either and I end up with two virtual computers running...each with Fx and sometimes Opera running and my host XP computer running with Fx and Opera open also. I usually have about 90 tabs open in each browser on three different computers and I don't want to close anything! I'll lose that stuff and I might not find it again.  If I was using IE, I sure wouldn't count on Favorites dealing with all that information and Fx and Opera bookmarks don't deal with it very well ...so, I just get more and more tabs open until something freezes and forces me to close the browser or even have to reboot. But, never worry, all the browsers SAVE the session and I can reopen 90+ tabs!!!  Of course, eventually I begin to wonder why the browsers are getting slow...duh...it's because of all those 90+ tab sessions that are saved in memory!!! 
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"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason |
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