Summary

When browsing Confluence via IE 11 , the browser memory increases and after sometime IE does not response.

Environment

Internet Explorer 11

Steps to Reproduce

1. Access Confluence using IE 11
2. Open any page (You can also test this on confluence.atlassian.com)
3. Press the development tools with F12, open Memory and start profiling (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn255003(v=vs.85).aspx)
4. Just switch between pages and browse the confluence instance
5. You should see an increase of memory usage with every switch

Expected Results

IE 11 should not crash and run normally

Actual Results

IE 11 stops working

Notes

You will not be able to replicate this issue if you have large amount of RAM on your machine . I was able to replicate this when the browser memory reached 2 GB .