What is causing IE to chow down on RAM?

[Michael Alan Goff]

Everything is updated, and I only have 3 tabs open. It is sucking up almost 600mb in RAM. The three tabs in question are as follows: MacRumors, Windows Central, and a Yuku forum. I also have no addons other than flash, which is built in. Maybe it is because I just recently took the plunge, again anyway, and have been using 8.1 on my SP 3, but this is just off. Also, it makes my fans kick on.

​I could probably lower RAM use with the TPL, but then I'd be taking revenue from those sites. And I don't do that.

 

[jordanzhninja]

Modern webpages and browsers are notorious for eating RAM.

 

[theefman]

Flash. Try closing the wincentral tab or any tab with an image heavy site.

 

[Yazen]

Everything is updated, and I only have 3 tabs open. It is sucking up almost 600mb in RAM. The three tabs in question are as follows: MacRumors, Windows Central, and a Yuku forum. I also have no addons other than flash, which is built in. Maybe it is because I just recently took the plunge, again anyway, and have been using 8.1 on my SP 3, but this is just off. Also, it makes my fans kick on.

​I could probably lower RAM use with the TPL, but then I'd be taking revenue from those sites. And I don't do that.

Most modern websites are coded badly, that is why...

 

[Yazen]

everything is updated, and i only have 3 tabs open. It is sucking up almost 600mb in ram. The three tabs in question are as follows: Macrumors, windows central, and a yuku forum. I also have no addons other than flash, which is built in. Maybe it is because i just recently took the plunge, again anyway, and have been using 8.1 on my sp 3, but this is just off. Also, it makes my fans kick on.

​i could probably lower ram use with the tpl, but then i'd be taking revenue from those sites. And i don't do that.

modern webpages and browsers are notorious for eating ram.

flash. Try closing the wincentral tab or any tab with an image heavy site.

hello!

 

[WanderingTraveler]

Windows Central is a memory hog, and that's part of the reason.

Add to that the fact that a lot of modern websites simply don't optimize for IE and you have a problem.

Then again, IE takes up 700MB in RAM on my T100 - with seven tabs open, including Windows Central and multiple image-heavy 8chan pages

 

[naveenow]

This issue is from Windows Central website and not an issue with IE.

 

[Nogitsune Micah]

Irony since this is a windows site.

 

[naveenow]

Irony since this is a windows site.

Not Windows site... This is a FAN SITE.
BRO...

 

[Yazen]

Windows fan site, you know what he meant lol

 

[Nogitsune Micah]

Windows fan site, you know what he meant lol

Lol thank you.

Not Windows site... This is a FAN SITE.
BRO...

Semantics. BRO....

 

[Michael Alan Goff]

What's causing the large RAM use from this site?

 

[Jas00555]

Probably the ads. I noticed it started happening when I whitelisted the site. I'm honestly thinking about changing it again if this keeps up.

 

[Yazen]

What's causing the large RAM use from this site?

Modern Web is inefficient. This site in particular )

 

[flyingsolid]

This is a good topic because I have noticed that too. I am learning from the answers.