briany Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 I have been having problems specifically with Photo.net with Flash related advertisements. After opening a page, IE (6.0.2900) will start to just chew through memory, up to 500MB or more in perhaps 30 seconds. It's obviously a Flash memory hole (one time IE exited, citing problems with Flash, and after disabling Flash the problem was gone). I went to Adobe.com and upgraded flash to 9.0.16. Unfortuantely, the problem still exists today. I disabled Flash again just to be sure, and the problem is gone. What I'm dealing with sounds exactly like http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/10/major_flash_pla.html and potentially: http://timotheegroleau.com/Flash/articles/scope_chain.htm and http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm? forumid=44&catid=184&threadid=1210973&enterthread=y Whatever the problem is, there is a flash animation on this site that's behaving badly and really killing my (and I assume others') machine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilly_w Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 Agreed...a voracious and insatiable appetite to the detriment of all else! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emre Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 You are not the first to complain. I wish we knew which advertisement it was. IE7 is out, by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 I've seen it happen on a number of sites. Only cure is to shut IE down and restart it. It's not just a photo.net issue. Photo.net doesn't use flash of course, so it's one of the ads that one of the suppliers are supplying. I'd bet it's not Google. Bad Flash really sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trothwell Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 Another data point. My IE at work soared to about 1 GB in memory usage before crashing, all the while using up lots of processor cycles and making the cooling fans on my machine get louder and louder... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briany Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 Thanks for the feedback. Should we be seeing these ads as subscribers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsc Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Can you specify the ad that you believe is causing the memory leak? We can bring it to our ad provider's attention and have them turn that one off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 I don't think anyone has yet managed to figure out which ad it is. From the original post, it looks like it must be a flash ad that's causing the problem, though IE can cetainly develop memory leaks from badly written JavaScript code too. I haven't had any problems today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trothwell Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 It was definitely Flash-related on my end. The original error I got when IE crashed was about Flash, and since disabling Flash all was well. I mostly use the Canon EOS forum, and I can say for sure it was an ad appearing there, for whatever that might be worth. I don't get this problem at all at home on my Apple Powerbook running Firefox, just on Windows XP with IE. Disabling Flash in IE solves the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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