Whenever I have a tab open with Hotmail running in Chrome, it takes up a large chunk of memory (around 250 M). I've had the account for a long time, so I have a ton of email messages stored in it. I'm assuming the Hotmail interface is caching a significant number of messages to allow for fast opening, though I've never found any evidence to back this up.
Is there a setting in Hotmail to prevent it from caching so many messages all at once?
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On an absolute lark, I tried out their new Outlook.com (from the "Options" menu), and the memory usage seems to have dropped from 250M down to 143M.
I'm not sure if the newer site uses a different framework or if they are doing something differently with the message caching, but this seems like a good solution for the time being.