Potash Valley

Since I have installed IE8, sometimes it starts consuming a lot of memory, about 500Mb, and is very very slow on "postbacks". It sometimes made me switch to Firefox where the sites where very fast. Actually it was my fault.

I very often debug HTML/Javascript code or analyse the techniques to enhance my knowledge. For this I have used the Developer Toolbar, and now with IE8 the integrated one. What I do is minimize it and thus I always have it ready to use. And this is actually the issue, it just loads the whole DOM again into memory with the perforamnce impact you can imagine.

So if you find Internet Explorer to be slow and consume lot of memory, close the development toolbar.