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 ran into this problem while writing a small "slideshow" application for different intranet pages used by my company. The simplest solution I found was restarting the application after some fixed period of time, an hour in my case. This solution worked well for us because there wasn't a lot of user interaction with the browser.

Public Class MyApplication

    Private _AppTimer As Timers.Timer

    Public Sub New()
        _AppTimer = New Timers.Timer()
        _AppTimer.Interval = 1 * 60 * 60 * 1000 '1 Hour * 60 Min * 60 Sec * 1000 Milli

        AddHandler _AppTimer.Elapsed, AddressOf AppTimer_Elapsed

        _AppTimer.Start()
    End Sub

    Private Sub AppTimer_Elapsed(s As Object, e As Timers.ElapsedEventArgs)
        Application.Restart()
    End Sub

End Class

This assumes of course that you have a data persistence mechanism in place.