On 2 Sep 2005 at 17:25, Don Penlington wrote:

> 1. Using IE in its original form, you are opening the whole browser program
> several times over as you browse to each new site. This will very quickly
> use up all your memory.

  While IE makes a good effort to try to *look* like this happens, it's not
entirely true.

  First of all, this apples not to normal "browsing to each new site", but
to opening links in a new window, either because they've been coded to open
that way (Google makes this an avalable preference setting, for instance),
or because you right-click on a link and choose "Open Link in New Window".
  But it's not really true even then; if you kill a running copy of IE from
the Task Manager, all of the sites opened from it in this manner (or from
which it was opened) also go away.  These multiple windows all belong to a
single running copy of IE.

  I use tabbed browsing because it's a better fit to how I work with the
web, not for any more efficient use of memory or other resources.  (A tabbed
skin for IE cannot possibly do this any more efficiently than IE on its
own.)

David Gillett

                         PCSOFT's List Owner's:
                      Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]>
                       Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>