I currently run Microsoft Windows Vista Business, with Internet Explorer 7 (7.0.6001.18000). I’ve been using IE7 since its beta stage (on Windows XP to begin with) and have never had this problem… After I upgraded to Windows Vista, I’ve noticed serious memory leak / problems with the browser.

IE has been running for about 3 hours. In total, I’ve opened (and closed) between 30 - 40 tabs. Then suddenly, when inspired to check the news online, my computer started to feel extremely sluggish… So I opened up task manager, expecting to see IE7 eating up all my resources as I’ve seen before. And that’s exactly what I found.

Good lord, what is going on? So I closed IE, and waited several seconds for the system to free up some memory. Then restarted IE7 to write this entry.

As far as I can see, it seems to be a problem with AJAX (as I’ve noticed IE7 feasting on my memory most often after I’ve been on Facebook and other AJAX websites), and after some digging, found:
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=105535, which seems to be a bug Microsoft refuses to address. I have also tried running IE in safe mode, or without any add-ons but to no avail.

Speaking of which, I currently have one IE7 window opened, running for less than 20 minutes with 6 tabs running… And memory usage has jumped to 144MB. What?!

I really do want to stick with IE7, and doubt I’ll ever fully convert to an alternative such as Firefox, as it’s just not to my taste. I don’t wish to turn this post into a IE7 vs. Firefox debate, but am really needing a solution!

So, has anyone else found they also have this problem? I would love to hear any advice anyone has on fixing this!

An amazing video! Did anyone else find Ant & Dec really annoying?

What an idiot. Oh, and with a laugh like that, the guy holding the camera is an idiot too.

Steve Kreuscher wants a judge to allow him to legally change his name. He wants to be known as “In God We Trust.”

Kreuscher (CROY’-shir) says the new name would symbolize the help God gave him through tough times.

The 57-year-old man also told the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald he’s worried that atheists may succeed in removing the phrase “In God We Trust” from U.S. currency.

He recalls that the phrase “God Reigns” was removed from the Zion city seal in 1992 after courts deemed it unconstitutional. Zion was founded as a theocracy — by a sect that believed the Earth was flat.

The school bus driver and amateur artist in the northern Chicago suburb says he has filed a petition to change his name in Lake County Circuit Court.

Police helping a German man track down a nuisance caller discovered his tormentor for two years was a faulty card payment system in a hairdresser’s shop.

The 58-year-old man in Frankfurt did not recognize the Hamburg number that kept ringing him and had it blocked.

After several months, he got tired of paying for the blocking service and the calls began again on working days.

Police traced the number to a Hamburg hairdresser whose payment system dialed the man whenever it accepted a card. Staff were oblivious to the problem, which is being fixed.

“When he picked it up he got no answer, and there was no response when he called back either,” said Frankfurt police spokesman Manfred Fuellhardt on Tuesday.

A Russian man trying to sleep off a night of after-work drinking failed to notice a six-inch (15-cm) knife in his back - until his wife woke him up.

Yuri Lyalin, 53, took a bus home, ate breakfast and apparently slept like a baby before his spouse noticed a handle sticking out of his back.

He was rushed to casualty but doctors found no vital organs damaged.

Mr Lyalin shrugged the episode off but the drinking partner who stabbed him faces trial, Russian media report.

“Unique and intriguing the case may be, but the accused faces a severe punishment,” said Pavel Vorobyov, a deputy prosecutor in the northern city of Vologda.

‘We were drinking’

Mr Lyalin, an electrician, had spent the evening drinking with a watchman at his workplace when they got into an argument, Interfax news agency reports.

The morning found him waking up in the watchman’s office but instead of going back to work, he decided to take the bus home.

At home, Mr Lyalin had some sausage from the fridge and lay down to sleep, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper says.

After a couple of hours, his wife noticed the handle sticking out of his back and called an ambulance.

Viktor Belov, a surgeon who treated him, found a kitchen knife in Mr Lyalin’s back but “by good fortune, it had gone through soft tissue without touching vital organs”.

His alleged attacker reported the crime to the police himself, Interfax adds. Mr Lyalin apparently feels fine and bears no ill-will.

“We were drinking and what doesn’t happen when you’re drunk?” he was quoted by Komsomolskaya Pravda as saying.

Thieves dressed as policemen talked their way past guards at Johannesburg’s High Court, then locked them in a bathroom and stole highly sensitive documents, a police spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

About six armed men in police uniforms convinced security guards they were at the court on Sunday night to look into a rape case, spokeswoman Julia Claassen said.

Once inside the building, the robbers disconnected surveillance and alarm systems, tied up the guards in the toilets, broke into a safe and left with the court documents.

“Police in the area outside the court noticed the men leaving and there was an exchange of gunfire,” said Claassen, adding the gang had still managed to escape.

Claassen did not give details about the stolen papers, but local media reports said one of the documents was linked to the case of a senior state prosecutor who is under police protection.

South Africa suffers from one of the highest levels of crime in the world, sparking public anger at the inability of authorities to ensure safety.

Impressive eh? It actually took several cuts, this is what happened in the first:

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