What is this IE coming to?

It's been less than 15 minutes and IE has crashed twice. Why the hell does it keep doing this? I only open about 10 windows at time . Everytime I go on to a site, mostly Vb-World.net, IE crashes! That darm Kernel32.dll!

Stupid IE

Anyone else have this problem?

[SteveCRM]

Every once in a while it happens to me...but then I don't have 10 windows open at a time...because I only have 64 megs ram I only have 5 things open now and Im running about 55% Its truespace 4.2 demo, winamp, aol(such crap),vb,and mspaint(I find it easier to make tiles in it than paintshop pro)

Man, you probably need more ram or need to cut down on those windows open!

[oetje]

Maybe Netscape is more stable.

[()InDiGo)))>]

i wouldn't recommend Netscape..

how ever now days i use Opera, it's in a MDI interface and it's pretty stable (i haven't crashed it yet...). i only use IE now days when i need Java or VBScript...

http://www.opera.com

[parksie]

If Netscape 6 gets its act together and supports the latest DHTML and things like that, it'll be an IE-beater.

It's only a web browser - it shouldn't be 80megs and take over your entire system!

And...why oh why can't IE reuse its cache after you reinstall? Netscape worked perfectly afterwards.

[Gen-X]

Adding more RAM might not fix it... adding VRAM could.

Ever wondered why some graphics cards are called "Windows Accellorators"?

For every window that you have open a "chunk" of memory keeps a copy of what is behind it. The more windows you have opened the more "chunks" that are required and most of these chunks are stored in your Video Memory. If your Graphics Card has 8MB of VRAM then you can hold onto a lot more information that other people even if you happened to have 128MB of RAM on board.

Ever notice when you close a window and what is behind it slowly replaces itself one line at a time? That is your OS paging in the "chunk" information from normal RAM or from your virtual RAM on the hard disk... To get rid of them you need more VRAM.

[CyberSurfer]

I'm using a PII 266MHz, 32Mb RAM, 4Mb VRAM and I have 7 IE(5.5) windows open. My computer is only just running slower than usual. Guess I'm lucky, eh?

This is so fricken pathetic! IE has crashed 6 times in the last 2 hours!

Seems like that's all it ever does. Just to annoy me.
Maybe Microsoft does it on purpose, just to piss me!

[zmerlinz]

hi,

have you got ie 5.5 because that is very buggy, it crashes my friends computer nearly all the time.

Merlin ?

That's exactly what I have. And a....

<cough>piece of crap</cough>

it is.

Well, FINALLY. Some people who see what I have been telling people for years now. I.E. is unstable DO TO THE FACT that it's PART of your Windows OS. So if I.E. crashes your whole system is messed up and you MUST reboot to keep from crashing.

I'm a Netscape 4.75 fan and I haven't had NOT ONE problem with it. I been using Netscape for at least 2 years now and I'll tell ya.. it's a LOT better to have Netscape crash and then restart it then to have I.E. crash only to have to get offline and reboot. Netscape has REALLY improved it's browser. ESPECIALLY since the newest version 4.75 went straight to a 128-BIT version. Man, does it purr..

AND you can get the scource code to Netscape and do ANYTHING you want with it. You can't do that with I.E.

Oh and stay away from the BETA of Netscape 6 if your not used to Netscape. It's STILL IN BETA for a reason.

Also, for those of you who don't know and you use netscape. You know when someties Netscape will just sit there at a site and it seems hung? It's not that it's the site. Someties it's the way Windows interferes with Netscape. I have found that you have to close your browser, and then hit CTR-ALT-DEL to bring up the task menu. There you will see Netscape still running. Just end the task, wait 5 seconds, and then restart Netscape. Vualla, you didn't have to reboot..

Netscape is trying to solve that problem. It seems that MS is deliberatly trying to screw Netscape over any way they can. That was obvious when I.E. put (Netscape programmers are weinnies) inside the code of I.E. Yes, MS did get sued..

Knight