Internet Explorer Mobile Is Using 24MB - WHY?

I was just posting an update to my progress in the “No Reboot Challenge” when I noticed something interesting; Internet Explorer Mobile is using almost 24MB on my device. What could be the reason for this? It’s not like the page I have open is huge or anything. In fact, it’s just the mobile home page of Twitter. Considering that the non-mobile version of the page is just 61,253 bytes, I can’t imagine the mobile version is somehow 22.9MB larger!

I wonder if this is some sort of error in reporting how memory is actually being used by IE Mobile, perhaps it should be 2.35MB? I’m pretty sure that it’s not showing the total downloaded via IE Mobile for that season. I might do a fair amount of Twitter, Netvibes, and Mobile Olympics coverage, but I can’t see it being 24MB in the last 24 or so hours since I hard reset the device.

At the Windows Mobile 6.1 announcement, Microsoft promised to release IE 6 on Windows Mobile 6.1.  If this is any indication of what we can expect, then I’m happy without seeing the functionality of IE 6 making its way to my device!

Anyone have any idea’s what might be the cause of this weird memory usage might be?

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