24 January, 2009

Windows 7 – IE 8 – Flash - An Amusing Memory Leak

Here’s an amusing memory leak:

Win7-IE8-Flash-Memory-leak

A 1.5GB browser memory footprint!

It’s a Windows 7 Beta, Clean, default installation, IE 8 as configured as in default Win 7 Beta installation, Flash 10, visiting the Google Analytics Dashboard. Switching to compatibility mode seems to prevent the leak. It’s likely a Flash problem.

I wonder how many non-technical users, when confronted with broken, slow, memory leaking software, blame the hardware and go out an buy a new computer? I know of a couple of people who’ve done just that.

That’s Ok though. Hardware is cheap. Programmers are expensive.

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