Monday, March 26, 2012

Internet explorer 6. Sucks up computers memory.

Hi,

I've got two pages on the same site where I use atlastoolkit:confirmbutton in a atlastoolkit:reorderlist.
One of the pages uses is updated with a updatepanel. Both pages has multiple fields that is updated when pressing a save button.

The problem is that users on internetexplorer 6 has to close down explorer regularly to be able to work with the pages since there computers goes slower and slower the longer they are an one of these pages. For example, it takes about 3-6 seconds to save(uses internet explorer 7). If leaving a internet explorer 6 computer on the page for a couple of minutes it takes about 2 minutes to save. After a couple of hours it takes almost 10 minutes.

It's not just the saving proccess. It's everything opening, changing page in a gridview. And atleast for some users the entire computer starts to go slow until they restart internet explorer.

Please can anyone help.
/Christoffer

That seems to be a bit extreme... Make sure IE on the browsers are configured to check for updated versions of the page automatically - will save on IE constantly downloading scripts and stuff...(each time IE does it verifies the scripts etc)...try to disable viewstate where you can as well...Additionally - make sure make sure make sure you are not running the application deployed compiled debug and turn debug compilation OFF in your web.config...Set the SCM to Release version - this will cut down on your memory footprint ...both server and on the client (smaller js files for starters)...

The new Beta 2 release of Ajax according to the docs addresses some of the memory issues as well...

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