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[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

+1

& me!!

WHS

WTS

[HeliCraig]

& me!!

Hey HC - Happy New Year

Hi CM - HNY to you too! Off to put shelves up now...

[Churchill]

& me!!

Hey HC - Happy New Year

WSS!

[cailin maith]

Afternoon denizens

Afternoon Chimp

[HeliCraig]

WSS!

You too mutt. Did you do any flying over the break?

[Churchill]

You too mutt. Did you do any flying over the break?

Nope, too busy tied to a certain young ladies apron strings...

I'll see what the spring/summer bring. Other priorities at the moment!

[NickFitz]

From a Bill Gates Q&A column in The New York Times, 1995:

(An Internet browser is software that lets an individual roam the worlds of information available on the Internet. Microsoft's browser is called the Internet Explorer.)

Ah, the days when readers had to be told what a "browser" is...

[BrilloPad]

I just had 40 winks.

I am picking up the twins at 4pm.

[Churchill]

Nick, has IE7 got any memory leaks that you know of?

[NickFitz]

Nick, has IE7 got any memory leaks that you know of?

There's a Technet forums thread claiming that opening a new tab allocates 900MB, which isn't released when the tab is closed, together with a number of other leaks

Also, JScript can cause memory leaks when written badly (which it is, most of the time). A chap blogs about one such case here, although MS simply closed the relevant bug without actually fixing it (in fact, as soon as IE7 was released, they simply closed all outstanding bugs).

The IE team blogged about memory leaks the other year, with links to several related articles including one on MSDN and a couple from third parties.

So the answer seems to be that IE 7 can either leak memory because of certain JS programming techniques (which are not in themselves wrong, in that they don't cause problems for other browsers, but are problematic for IE due to the way JScript garbage collection differs from COM garbage collection), or just do it on its own for no good reason