Vista and ie slowdown

Phil2008

Phil2008

Phil2008

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Ive been using vista fir a few weeks now, and sometimes when I use internet explorer the web sites open up real slow, but then if I close ie and load it up again, the web sites load up nice and fast again... Any ideas whats causing this?
 
I think you will find that firefox's memory usage is much better these days, only using 113mb now, in the past it would have used over 400mb to do the same thing. Maybe Vista makes the difference though, only ever had huge mem usage on XP.

Fwiw, I have used IE7 a fair bit on vista and have never experienced any slow down, is consistantly faster than FF, so there is deffo a problem, IE is not a duff browser.
 
How do you mean "slow" - if you mean there's a long delay where the browser appears to do nothing once you hit the go button then that could be a DNS issue (try OpenDNS), but if the page starts loading and takes a while to completely appear then it points to some other issue (which needs more information to diagnose what's broken)

OT:
Burnsy2023 said:
If you like to leak memory like the titanic leaks water then yes it is.

Burnsy
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I thought that title was reserved for IE:

browser-memory-comparison.png

(from here and here, the latter being one of the developers at Mozilla who gives steps to reproduce).
 
Comparing virtual memory usage is pointless. Please compare the actual working set values... that is what counts.
 
Indeed - the graph I posted uses the Commit Size value from Vista.
The second link even has a whole explanation of how different OSs (or rather, Windows XP and OSX) suck at reporting memory usage accurately.
 
Dark_Angel said:
Well, I have to be honest - recent versions of Firefox have been quite low in memory usage, despite my usually browsing with at least 5 tabs open.
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Indeed, apparently FF3 is very good for this, but it also breaks all my extensions and therefore the loses the whole point of using FF.

Burnsy
 
IE loads up fine, but sometimes when you load it up, browsing the net is very slow, so you have to close ie and load it up again, then browing the net becomes nice and fast again.
 
tolien said:
The two links at the bottom, though I'm sure I've seen one with Opera 9.27 and IE6 somewhere :o
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Sorry i was being a bit dense there wasn't i? :D

I've had a read now, i was suprised at the graph thats all, i've always found Opera very good with its management, 9.5 can be flaky, but thats why it has beta or nightly slapped on it :p 9.27 is a rock as far as i'm concerned :)
 
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