IE6 and mem usage

[three 0]

I have noticed lately that if I leave explorer open on a web page, go to work and come home that I will see a prompt stating that mem usage is high. I checked the task manager and it showed explorer using 900megs of memory! Does this have to do with banners and cache? Anybody know what I can do to solve this problem?

[DosFreak 2]

Close IE before you leave for work?

[Philipp 6]

Blocking ads is a good way to kill websites

 

Saw today this article:

http://www.tuplay.com/display.asp?i=54&p=1

[Ge0ph 0]

Banners are what helps pay for web sites. Killing the banners is not a good way to support the web sites you visit.

[Bursar 0]

Whilst I appreciate that blocking banners takes away some income from the site you are visiting, do most companies pay according to the number of people that see the ad, or the number that click on it?

 

If it's based on click-thrus then they are only losing revenue if the user would have clicked the banner. The fact they are blocking banners means that they wouldn't have clicked it anyway.

 

If it's based on the number of views a banner gets, then it's obviously a different kettle of fish.

[Ge0ph 0]

If you never see the banner you will not click on it. ;(

[Xiven 0]

Arguments about banner-ads aside, what you need is Ad-Aware, a useful little program from lavasoft that removes any nasty spyware from IE which may solve your memory leak problem.

[Bursar 0]

Quote:

If you never see the banner you will not click on it. ;(

That was kind of the point I was making. If a user is savvy enough to install this type of software to block adverts, then they probably won't be the kind of user that chases all over the net clicking banners anyway.

[three 0]

hehe, all i wanted was to solve the memory problem...i don't mind the ads since i'm on broadband and it doesn't really slow me down any, all i'm asking is why it uses up to 900mb of ram for just one web page. i'm sure there is some setting i could change to keep that mem down as i'm also running vnc and ftp and it really affects it.

 

as to turning ie off, well I do, just sometimes i forget

[Son_Gohan 0]

and don't feel bad about it. My connections is not really fast (56K). Cable isn't available in my town yet, and ADSL is kinda expensive ( € 35 + VAT).

 

If I want to support a website, i can just click on the banner. But generally, I don't pay attention to what online ad's say.

 

It is also sad that while GOOD websites (such as ntcompatible, the gia...) depend on banners, other pretend us to watch their banners AND pay for premmium content.

 

 

I think ad-blocking software is just a personal choice. If I had broadband access, I wouldn't care waiting some seconds. But with my current settins, I NEED this tool. Web browsing is about 30 % faster now with ad's off.

 

PS:

It would be inmoral to "turn off automatically load images", wouldn't it?

[Uykucu 0]

Before getting in to banner subject.

I have never seen IE do that quite frankly, not in that scale anyway. It definetly is a memory leak as our dear friends already told you. But I doubt it is the IE itself. Do you have any other add-on's etc working with ie? skin thingys or browser this and that? they might be the reason. Another qestion is which site are we talking about here? some of them preload images videos and all i can think of is some sort of media they are using is kept on memory. If this happens with all the sites than i am baffled!

 

About the banner. I think they are harmless and useful to keep small non-corporate sites up and running especialy since they usually can not afford things like cabinets, servers of their own or dedicated BW. I do not use any ad removers etc. since i do not care much but neither do i click on them. we use them for some of our customers as targeted advertisement and it works if you have a horse racing tip page, having a banner about online casino on the form for people to sign up returns a nice revenue But some sites are overdoing it as pop-up's etc which i prefer to avoid. Note only they are annoying but there is a new fashion for forcing your brwser to a certain IP or adress, downloading and executing trojan horses. It is generally Jscipts that are responsible but active x has also been a way to deliver malucious content for years. So far Norton Anti virus is very efficient on filtering them out but we will see in time.

[reversing_drive 0]

I wouldn't use add blocking software either, though i am also restricted to internet access of 28,800bps if i'm lucky i get 32,600bps connection.

 

We all have morals about certain things, i think it is good banners can pay for sites such as this magnificiant site. But i never have and never will click on banners for whatever garbage is written on them. Though i sometimes click-through to help sites such as ntcompatible.

 

It's like with software piracy, we all have our own opinions on that, right. Well mine is, sure copy software, try it out. If you keep using it and like it, THEN BUY IT!!!

 

Besides naviscope doesn't seem to remove the banners from ntcompatible anyway. Though it does a good job of hotmail:D and other bandwidth heavyweights (Clutter, adds, uneccessary eyecandy, bloatted content, ect...)

 

Cheers,

 

PS Hotmail doesn't reconize i have a version 4 browser or later with Naviscope enabled (I have IE5.5 SP2), could this be because i have 'Hide System Information' option enabled?

[three 0]

it happens mainly when i go to mp3 sites, heh, guess thats the price you pay for leeching music