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    Zenbook browsing taking up a lot of memory

    Hi I've had this computer for little over a week, the other one for 8 months. I've never cleared the cache or browser history on either of them, so I don't see how that can be a contributing factor. Nor have I experienced any crashes I'm afraid. I pretty much had these issues out of the box :)...
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    Zenbook browsing taking up a lot of memory

    Thanks for the suggestions, both of you! I really appreciate the help. My Thinkpad has Windows 10 Enterprise and my ASUS, which has the problem, has Windows 10 Home. Is there any reason why that might make the difference? I can assure you I have no browser extensions installed beyond AdBlock. I...
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    Zenbook browsing taking up a lot of memory

    Hey, webworkings Thanks for all your help. That's just the thing though: my browsing is about as vanilla as it can be right now :) Out of those five tabs, one was gmail, one was facebook, one was tomshardware and 2 were news articles. I can have all those open on my thinkpad and much, much more...
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    Zenbook browsing taking up a lot of memory

    Hey, webworkings Thank you for your ideas! Unfortunately I have the same issue with Chrome as well, so I'm not sure if the version of Firefox is the cause. Regarding cache, I've only had this computer for a week and I've never cleared the cache on my thinkpad in 6 months so I'd rule that out as...
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    Zenbook browsing taking up a lot of memory

    Hello I recently bought an ASUS Zenbook Flip UX360UAK with a 7th gen Intel i7 and 8gb of RAM and Windows 10 home OS. One thing I have noticed is that my browsers all take up a lot of memory and I don't understand why. For example a simple facebook tab on Firefox takes up more than 600 mb of...