How to Fix the Memory Leak in IE WebBrowser Control?

Question

I am trying to embed a WebBrowser Control in a C# Winform Application. This sounds easy enough. However I discovered that the WebBrowser control eats up a lot of memory ever

Answer 1

I just created a simple app with a web browser control to try and duplicate your results. What I found was that yes, every time you navigate to a page, the memory being used increases significantly. HOWEVER, this is NOT a memory leak, because if you keep navigating, you'll see that after a short while, the memory drops significantly, indicating that the garbage collector did it's thing. To prove it, I forced the Garbage Collector to collect after every time I called Navigate, and the overall memory used stayed put at almost the same amount after every navigate call.

So while it DOES rack up memory every time you "Navigate" it's NOT a memory leak, and you the memory will be released. If it's raking up too quickly, just call GC.Collect();