Weird IE problem

[Russ Smith]

Since I upgraded to IE8 I'm noticing a weird issue but only on my desktop, not my girlfriend's laptop. I'll have multiple tabs open and one site will hang, which will then result in EVERY tab being hung. The only way to get out is to open task manager, but even then the applications tab is useless, you can't close any hung IE tabs from there. You have to open the processes tab and manually close the iexplore.exe to close the tab. But, even that doesn't work at first because there will now be 4 or 5 separate iexplore.exe listed under processes, usually using anywhere from 25 to 75K. And it's not one entry per tab I've messed around with this enough even if I have only 1 tab open, there will be multiple entries of iexplore under processes.

I'm convinced this is why it keeps hanging, it keeps opening new processes until it hangs. The only way out is to close every iexplore process manually and then restart IE.

I'm kind of stuck with IE, when I tried firefox before my girlfriend hated it.

 

[RON_IN_OC]

Since I upgraded to IE8 I'm noticing a weird issue but only on my desktop, not my girlfriend's laptop. I'll have multiple tabs open and one site will hang, which will then result in EVERY tab being hung. The only way to get out is to open task manager, but even then the applications tab is useless, you can't close any hung IE tabs from there. You have to open the processes tab and manually close the iexplore.exe to close the tab. But, even that doesn't work at first because there will now be 4 or 5 separate iexplore.exe listed under processes, usually using anywhere from 25 to 75K. And it's not one entry per tab I've messed around with this enough even if I have only 1 tab open, there will be multiple entries of iexplore under processes.

I'm convinced this is why it keeps hanging, it keeps opening new processes until it hangs. The only way out is to close every iexplore process manually and then restart IE.

I'm kind of stuck with IE, when I tried firefox before my girlfriend hated it.

I have to use IE8 on my work laptop and have the same problem...our IT group can't figure it out. I use Firefox at home and never have that problem.

 

[CatBoxBackFan]

I'm kind of stuck with IE, when I tried firefox before my girlfriend hated it.

Just use FF on yours,also is your OS XP or Vista because I had the same problem with this on my XP laptop but my not on my girls Vista laptops.

 

[Russ Smith]

Just use FF on yours,also is your OS XP or Vista because I had the same problem with this on my XP laptop but my not on my girls Vista laptops.

Both are XP. Actually it happened on her laptop today so it's on both systems, I used the desktop a lot more recently so I hadn't seen it on the laptop until today.

 

[conraddobler]

It's an XP problem, probably needs a patch to fix, never happens on my Vista machines but XP users who've upgraded all have it happen from time to time.

This site has acted odd since I upgraded, once you click on a thread it will just sit there for the longest time sometimes but if I click on the blank screen then it'll load instantly.

Microsoft is a wonderus thing.

 

[Chaz]

I have had intermittent problems with IE8 loading since I got it.

Sometimes a new tab just won't load. Close the browser window and open again and then it will work.

IE8 standard behavior seems to be a separate process for each tab.
Also if I leave the window open for an extended time the memory usage just continues to grow.

They finally managed to fix my Outlook 2007 (windows closed but process keeps running) issue a couple of months ago.

I keep thinking Microsoft will publish an update to fix this IE issue soon.

 

[conraddobler]

There is a little icon at the top bar of your browser that looks like a paper torn in half.

It's the compatibility mode button, you can try toggling that to see if it helps any, some websites won't function without hitting it.

 

[jw7]

I'm kind of stuck with IE, when I tried firefox before my girlfriend hated it.

Seriously, think about using Firefox for 2 weeks before you give up on it. I really hated it at first, but now, while I have IE on my computer, I can't imagine not using firefox.

 

[BrandonAllen2010]

Easy Solution... Google chrome

 

[Ryanwb]

I just started having an issue where IE is holding previously closed pages in resident memory. My computer was acting really slow so I pulled up task manager and my memory usage was maxed out. There were nearly 25 IE sessions active, but nothing on the active desktop.

I like firefox but I still need IE for some work stuff

 

[Chaz]

I just started having an issue where IE is holding previously closed pages in resident memory. My computer was acting really slow so I pulled up task manager and my memory usage was maxed out. There were nearly 25 IE sessions active, but nothing on the active desktop.

I like firefox but I still need IE for some work stuff

I took Nidan's suggestion and tried using the IEtab plugin for firefox.

It works really well.

 

[Sandan]

Once in a while I have a good idea