IE7 vs FF - WTF?

I'll admit, I'm probably a bit late to the 'alternative browser party'.

Lately, IE has been crashing all over the place for me and is running very slow.

I noticed something that struck me as a bit ridiculous a few minutes ago.

This screenshot is from task manger with IE and Firefox having rendered the same page.
page:  http://seekingalpha.com/article/115525-the-scariest-chart-ever?source=front_page_most_popular_articles

Seriously?

Your color scheme makes my blood sugar explode.

Yggdrasil said:

Your color scheme makes my blood sugar explode.

I don't think it's his computer. You don't typically find "Free Download Manager" and "HP Digital Imagine Monitor" on a dev machine. I'd run a malware scan.

W3bbo said:

Yggdrasil said:

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I don't think it's his computer. You don't typically find "Free Download Manager" and "HP Digital Imagine Monitor" on a dev machine. I'd run a malware scan.

I think you will find that most people are not as pedantic as you are, and do not have entirely separate machines for development and day-to-day web-browsing, printing and downloading.

W3bbo said:

Yggdrasil said:

*snip*

I don't think it's his computer. You don't typically find "Free Download Manager" and "HP Digital Imagine Monitor" on a dev machine. I'd run a malware scan.

Nah, FDM is legit and HP Digital Imaging Monitor is  some HP printer monitoring app.

I just received the exact same results testing the exact same page on my XP laptop.

And it's my wife's desktop, hence the pink colors.

That page takes up about 80MB in IE7 for me, about 55MB in Firefox.  But the scary thing is that iexplore.exe was maxing out one of my cores the entire time, even after the page was fully loaded.

spivonious said:

That page takes up about 80MB in IE7 for me, about 55MB in Firefox.  But the scary thing is that iexplore.exe was maxing out one of my cores the entire time, even after the page was fully loaded.

Likewise, quickly climbs to 200+ with CPU pegging at about 60% for the process.

I never managed to see the page in IE or even be able to look at the source in IE, I had to kill the task and then use FireFox.

That page has a butt-load of scripts on it, and sucks in more as js files... I swear there is more <script> content than text content.

That might not be the cause of this issue, but you'd think it would start favourite.

elmer said:

spivonious said:

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Likewise, quickly climbs to 200+ with CPU pegging at about 60% for the process.

I never managed to see the page in IE or even be able to look at the source in IE, I had to kill the task and then use FireFox.

That page has a butt-load of scripts on it, and sucks in more as js files... I swear there is more <script> content than text content.

That might not be the cause of this issue, but you'd think it would start favourite.

My laptop is pink.  For the price I am secure enough in my manhood and sexuality to use Pink.  The laptops name is The Pink Panther, its pink and I stuck a sticker of the Carolina Panthers on it.  I get a lot of double takes at work.

<-------- Beats chest

blowdart said:

phreaks said:

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Sure it is says the "man" with the pink rolled up long sleeved t-shirt in his avatar

LMAO.

I didn't think anyone would notice.

I would look for malware and viruses.  Try disabling all your add-ons and see if you still see the massive memory leakage.

Both IE and Firefox have bugs. Firefox 3 first release had the same "memory flooding" bug, but it is fine now as the update was releast a few days later. In my laptop Firefox was using +300mb of ram with a just-opent google page...

So... Update your IE and it will be fine

Btw nice desktop collors

ChZ said:

Both IE and Firefox have bugs. Firefox 3 first release had the same "memory flooding" bug, but it is fine now as the update was releast a few days later. In my laptop Firefox was using +300mb of ram with a just-opent google page...

So... Update your IE and it will be fine

Btw nice desktop collors

Latest thing to bug me about the RC1... I had IE setup to use Notepad++ as my source editor... and RC1 took it upon itself to kill that for me... now I need to try and remember how I did that, as there is no option (that I can find) to undo IE's change, within IE... this is a PITA as I'm working on some stuff that needs this functionality right now.

Is this from a cold start? Did you remove addins/

elmer said:

ChZ said:

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Latest thing to bug me about the RC1... I had IE setup to use Notepad++ as my source editor... and RC1 took it upon itself to kill that for me... now I need to try and remember how I did that, as there is no option (that I can find) to undo IE's change, within IE... this is a PITA as I'm working on some stuff that needs this functionality right now.

Tools > Developer Tools

CannotResolveSymbol said:

elmer said:

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Conveniently, I found the option you're looking for as I was checking out RC1 earlier today

Tools > Developer Tools

In the Developer tools window, File > Customize Internet Explorer View Source > Other...  and pick Notepad++.

I think you used to have to change some registry values to change the view source editor.  This is a lot easier.

CannotResolveSymbol gave the answer. It is correct