[wplug] Wine/IE memory leak?

Brian W. Snyder brian at teamsnyder.net
Wed Apr 2 14:52:20 EST 2008


larry at daberko.com wrote:
> I've got a user who needs to access an IE only site.  I installed Wine
> 0.9.56 on Fedora 8 and ran IEs4linux to install IE 6.  As the user leaves
> the IE window open, memory is consumed slowly until all of memory and swap
> fills and the machine locks up.
> 
> Closing the IE window doesn't kill the session or release the memory all
> the time.
> 
> Anyone else having this issue?  What other alternatives should I look at?


With the two IE-only sites I need to use, I have had some minor success 
using Konqueror. It's not perfect but, in my case, I can login and 
usually do what I need to do in the interim. Again, your client's 
mileage may vary depending on what he/she needs IE for.


Brian








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