Does your browser ever "bleed" or "leak"?

[ablang]

I use MSIE 5.0 128bit version. It's usually very reliable, as it rarely locks up. Usually it just stops responding on "loaded" web sites, and I can just close it, and re-open it.

"Bleeding" or "leaking" by my definition refers to when the above doesn't happen, but rather, the browsers words or pictures do something weird where everything goes blank or a certain color. Basically, the only thing you can do is to shut down and reboot. Does this happen to you? What causes this?

[Maginno]

Well, my browser used to do the "Bleed" as you describe it, Didn't think much of it (Not horrible, maybe your situation is). Eventually upgraded my comp and got a new video card (originally a pci ATI card, now a TNT2). Now my problem with IE5.5 is every once in a while, it will not load any pages, no clicks work, no form submissions. Close it and re open to the same page it works fine. Go figure.

[Ultima]

I have had the bleed thing a few times too, but the last 3 months IE has been extremely stable on my pc, never crashed once.

Maybe it's maturing with time elapsed after installation. LOL

Pim

[chipbgt]

Only when I beat it.

[Jeff7]

Something I found when IE crashes - closing it doesn't really close it. I got a program called Resource Manager (Resman) from www.entechtaiwan.com . After IE crashes, Resman says that Iexplore.exe is still active - that causes it to crash easily even after re-opening it. However, Resman has a good Terminate feature - if IE crashes, or nearly any other app crashes - I use Resman to terminate it completely.

[BFlurie]

Sounds like maybe a video problem. Might try lowering your color resolution and/or setting your Graphics accelerator down one or two notches, and also try disabling smooth scrolling.

[ablang]

Well, this problem usually only occurs if MSIE has been working properly (1-2 days straight w/ no crashing), then the leaking happens.

Other than that, I have a 14" monitor, and set to 640 x 480, 32-bit true color (ooh, love those pretty colors). Do you think dropping down the colors, say 24-bit true color, would make the problem occur less?

[BFlurie]

Definitely. Just to experiment, set it back to 256 color & notice how much faster your GUI interface is. Of course, if you have a 1 GHz CPU, you might not notice.