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IE8 not loading pages on some tabs
In Windows 7 RC, i got this perculiar problem when IE8 will refuse to load a webpage if it's opened in a new tab (middle-click, ctrl+click on a link or alt+enter on url/search box)
Hitting stop and reload will not get any response too, monitored network and found that it's not even attempting to load the webpage.
Sometimes, closing the tab and trying again from the parent tab won't work either.
Found that if I middle-click on a link multiple times (to open multiple tabs of the same page), the first 3 or 4 tabs will always fail to connect and finally start loading on the last tab.
When I look at the processes, i'll see multiple instances of iexplore.exe.
A couple of them are more than 40MB, and some are less than 5MB.
Killing the 5MB processes has no effect on my IE8 session, thus I assume those are the instances of the unresponsive tabs.
Somehow, IE8 failed to clear off the dead instances.
IE8 seems to have adopted a weird way to manage tabs.
Whereas Firefox manage all tabs in a single process and Chrome simply opens tabs as individual processes, IE8 has 1 process managing a few tabs.