Microsoft Edge was eating all my RAM — these fixes finally stopped it

Microsoft Edge and I were getting along just fine until it started swallowing every last drop of my PC’s RAM. One moment everything was smooth, and the next my laptop’s fans were spinning like a helicopter. When I opened the Task Manager, Edge was sitting there at the top, consuming almost all of my PC’s RAM.

Since I wasn’t ready to ditch Edge, I did the next best thing. I investigated every active extension, tweaked Edge’s performance settings, and after a bit of trial and error, I was able to bring Edge’s RAM usage under control for good.

Stop tabs and extensions hogging memory

Spot the culprits

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