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If you click a shortcut in the toolbar on your desktop, it opens an entirely new IE process that consumes about 20-30 megs of RAM. Multiply that by 10-15 windows, and IE can be sucking up a lot of your available memory.
Instead, if you take an existing, already open IE window and hit Control-N (open a new window), then you will open a new window with the same IE process, and it will only consume a small bit more of RAM, intead of another 20-30 megs.
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Just read that again. You have to wonder why would they allow that to happen? It's basically allowing an application to run multiple instances of itself. What is the benefit? I could see some upside if the app was doing some heavy processing (3d rendering) that did not utilize 100% of available RAM or processor time and that by running multiple instances you could run concurrent tasks in their own memory/processor space which could be efficient. Can't see why a web browser would need to do that.
Simply mind boggling.