does your surface get hot just browsing?

[MilesTeg]

To respond to the OP I have had my i7 SP3 for several weeks without issue. After applying all of the patches from early last week I was laying in bed surfing using Metro IE like I have done for weeks without issue and noticed that all of a sudden the back corner was very hot and the fan was running full bore. A check of task manager showed the CPU was running 60 to 80 percent.

I shut down metro IE and went to regular IE and it was fine (6 to 15 percent CPU). Opened metro back and it went right back up. I checked to make sure all the updates and firmware had been applied and they had so I was trying everything in my power to figure out what was going on.

As a last ditch effort, I completely powered off the SP3 and back on again and mysteriously everything was back to normal with Metro IE going down to 5 to 15 percent CPU. I typically do not power off my device completely and do restarts when needed but apparently it wanted a full shut down.

Not sure if that will take care of your issue but it did mine and it has been working fine for several days now.

I've noticed the exact same thing as well with my i7 SP3. Powering off and then on to resume my browsing takes care of the heat issue but from time to time I still need to reboot it.

 

[MilesTeg]

Pages with a lot of flash and ads can cause overheating, add some tracking filters to IE and that will help.

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Is this for desktop IE or will it work for metro IE too?

 

[malberttoo]

Is this for desktop IE or will it work for metro IE too?

That's the beauty of it, if you set it up in Desktop IE, the settings will apply to Metro!

 

[bluegrass]

Tracking protection

Same here. I didn't know it existed but than again I don't go exploring every nook and cranny of my browser.

 

[Moonsurface]

No, I have the i7 and it stays cool with normal browsing I do use the MUI version of internet explorer though. The only times I hear the fan is when it's syncing online-such as dropbox, downloading large files or I do something, I'd expect to be processor intensive. I use Chrome all the time on other computers but l realise it's a pig on the surface so I have avoided it. It makes you think it's faster by using computer resources in the background.