Can a memory leak in IE ever be resolved?

[bru]

I previously posted about the memory leak I experience with IE8. Right now after being open for a few hours and doing general browsing it is using 1700MB, more than 65% of my total in use memory.

I used to be able to tolerate it but now it is effecting performance requiring me to shut down the browser as it's high memory use eventually makes my system unuseable.

I really don't think it is normal as some have said. I know I can use a different browser but I would really like to know if there is anyway to get IE not to be such a memory hog? Will moving to IE9 make any difference? I don't see the problem on my newer laptrop that uses IE9, but I wonder if my older desktop is just bound to have this problem no matter what version of IE I use.

 

[LMiller7]

I doubt the problem is in IE itself but more likely in a third party add-on, many of which are not well written. It could also be malware.

 

[bru]

It happens with all add-ons disbled so I think I can rule that out. My MSE and MBAM scans come up clean but I suppose that doesn't mean there couldn't be malware somewhere, but how do I find it?

 

[UsernameIssues]

Try IE10 and turn on 64bit tabs.

If you don't like it, you can always go back:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/112121-internet-explorer-9-uninstall-2.html#post2319908