IE11: laggy performance

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I find Internet Explorer 11 to be one of the best browsers available on Windows 8.1: it is fast, it starts in a second, it is quite lightweight on resources and stable.

Despite that, I'm experiencing a tedious problem with it: performance are somehow choppy and inconsistent sometimes, like every 3 minutes; sometimes it just freezes for 5 seconds while I'm doing a Google search, sometimes it becomes unresponsive while doing pretty simple stuff like browsing Reddit or opening a new tab. The scrolling is ok 60% of the time, but it can be very laggy in numerous occasions.

I'm pretty sure there's something that's not ok under the hood, mainly because I get this issue when I'm doing super simple tasks, not on heavy bloated webpages.

Here's my addon situation (I'm also using adblock, which is not listed there for some reason):
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It is a pretty old laptop: HP Paviglion Dv5 1102el, AMD Turion RM-72 2.1Ghz, 4 gigs of DDR2 RAM, ATI Radeon HD3450 512MB and a brand new 250gigs Samsung SSD. As I said before, I'm using Windows 8.1
Chrome does work well, but oh boy it consumes lots of resources forcing the noisy laptop fan to spin endlessly: with IE11 that does not happens, and that's why I've been using it for the last months.
I found Firefox to be slower, especially right after booting up the computer.
Don't really like Opera.
 
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I know you are probably not going to like to hear this but the poor performance you are getting might simply be because of the laptop itself. Have you used this laptop on another operating system? I know it's a pain but it might be worth a try reverting back to windows 8 as some people have experienced issues on older hardware using 8.1. I personally use cyberfox as my browser but it requires a 64-bit os.
 
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Before upgrading to Windows 8.1, I've been using 8 for almost a year and the problem was still there: IE10 was choppy and laggy while performing simple tasks, but otherwhise very fast.
Maybe the laptop itself is the one to blame, but then again why Chrome, which is way heavier on resources, is so much smoother? Shoul'd be be slower?


 
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Not necessarily. Chrome is using your resources to go faster. It's utilizing what's available, that's not always a bad thing. Since there isn't much to work with, it seems so heavy on your system. IE10 is just a bad browser to be honest and was a very unpopular browser.
 
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IE11 latest reviews are very good, but I guess you're right, I'll go back to Chrome and I try to ignore the fan noise.
I'd try Firefox or Opera, but I'm also using 2 chromebooks so I'm forced to stick to Chrome if I want my passwords and bookmarks to be synched.
Thanks :)

 
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IE11 is very good, compared to 9 and 10. But there are much better browsers out there(in my opinion). If the noise doesn't bother you, then I would just stick with chrome.
 
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Although you are right about tracking protection lists providing similar functionality, he shouldn't have to ditch the add-ons that he wants to use. Maybe there is a certain feature that he likes about this add-on or he just prefers it. Regardless of the reason, it's his computer and he is free to do what he wants with it. Browsers should be flexable to the user, not the other way around.
 
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That did the trick!
I found out that the reason for IE11 slowliness was AdBlock Plus: disabling it resulted in a much smoother and enjoyable experience.
I'm now using a simple tracking protection list (fanboy list) and everything is fast, even faster than before.
Considering that I was not using any addon other than AdBlock and that Flash in already integrated in the browser, I just disable all third party addons, so that now Internet Explorer is lighting fast and very light on reasources.
Thanks guys :)

Although you are right about tracking protection lists providing similar functionality, he shouldn't have to ditch the add-ons that he wants to use. Maybe there is a certain feature that he likes about this add-on or he just prefers it. Regardless of the reason, it's his computer and he is free to do what he wants with it. Browsers should be flexable to the user, not the other way around.
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You may be right about Internet Explorer not being the most flexible browser out there, but in all honesty I believe that the reason of its slowliness was a faulty or non-well-optimized addon, something the browser developers can't control at all.
For my personal use, right now IE11 is way better than Chrome, just because it is faster and lighter on my aging laptop: Chrome consumes nearly 1GB of RAM and 50% of the CPU when I'm browsing the internet with 3 tabs open, while IE does the same job with less than a quarter of the RAM usage without overloading the weak processor I'm using. If the only downside is having to watch 15 seconds of ads before every YouTube video (the only kinds of ads a tracking protection list can't block) I'm ok with that :)
 
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