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ASP.NET MVC - Disabling Browser Link

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You may be experiencing unexpected errors and performance impacts as a result of a capability added within Visual Studio 2013, titled Browser Link. The intent of Browser Link, was to allow the IDE to (bi-directional) communicate with the browsers (using SignalR), and allow for refreshing multiple browsers at once ("via Refreshing Linked Browsers"). In the circumstance that you are experiencing the following issues, The web application / scripts being loaded, are taking extensive periods of time to load, as a result of javascript / jQuery errors being returned to the client. The CPU usage between IIS Worker Process (W3WP) is increasing outside normal bounds. HTML markup contains garbage tags, as a result of the HttpModule associated with Browser Link. You can disable the Browser Link capability, by either using Visual Studio settings, or by disabling in the web configuration. Visual Studio [ source ] In the Browser Link dropdown menu, uncheck Enable Browser Li