[focus]

My old boy phoned to say he's getting a Microsoft internet Explorer error message when using yahoo email. It reads: 'Out of memory at line 653'
Probably nothing, but he's a bit of double durex when it comes to computers so I said I'd ask what it meant.

Cheers

[wilko]

Originally Posted by focus

My old boy phoned to say he's getting a Microsoft internet Explorer error message when using yahoo email. It reads: 'Out of memory at line 653'
Probably nothing, but he's a bit of double durex when it comes to computers so I said I'd ask what it meant.

Cheers

Sounds to me as though you have a memory leak - and Yahoo mail is crashing because of it.

Does a restart fix it? If so, does it reappear after a few days?

If it has happened only once, then I would forget about it until it happens again. As long as you have made sure that firewall and AV protection are up to date, you should be fine.

[focus]

cheers!

[diederik]

And download FireFox of course ;)

[TheReverend]

Unless you want a proper browser like Opera ;)

[wilko]

Yep, all of the above.

Unless, however, it is the Yahoo mail application that is causing the memory leak, in which case the browser won't matter.

But I am more inclined to believe that it is IE that is hogging the memory, because it is a greedy little bugger. Firefox and opera are a lot more considerate.

[focus]

Originally Posted by wilko_uk

Yep, all of the above.

Unless, however, it is the Yahoo mail application that is causing the memory leak, in which case the browser won't matter.

But I am more inclined to believe that it is IE that is hogging the memory, because it is a greedy little bugger. Firefox and opera are a lot more considerate.

I used to use Firefox but stopped for some reason
must give it another go.