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 was running into the same problem, as an alternative, instead of navigating to a new page, I simply rewrote the same html page using the system.oi.streamreader/writer object and calling a refresh. Obviously that won't work in a situation where content for the browser is being fed online, but it's doing the trick for me.

Also, I'm currently using 8+ browser controls all active at the same time to serve reporting through javascript inside my .net app. As a user makes one browser active, the html to which the other browsers are pointing, are cleared and the browsers refreshed. With 8 browsers running with these two methods I can easily keep my app well under the memory usage of Firefox with just 3 tabs open.