Your home page for this game has a bad memory leak.

I had left my browser open at the homepage for roughly 30 minutes.

URL: http://ageofempiresonline.com/

Examining my task manager I could see that more and more memory was being allocated towards my browser - it was steadily rising while the tab was open, until I closed the tab at about 800 megs. It would have climbed higher. After closing the tab for the home page, the memory allocated to the browser dropped significantly and stopped growing. Might be a good idea to look into this. I can see people leaving the home page open while they play the game, reducing performance significantly (it's worth noting that by the time I closed the tab, the browser's CPU usage had increased to 50%).

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Yes you can watch it build faster by Opening your task manager and just switching between forum messages... Scary lol

Now if I could figure out where all these rundll32.exe's are coming from an not closing after they are done... Muahahaha

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The homepage is probably using flash or some other third party component required by your browser, check if your browser components(example: flash player) are upto date, and likewise with your browser. The page itself cannot leak memory, if there's something on that page causing memory usage to shoot up, it's more than likely a third party component at fault(i tend to have memory issues myself with flash heavy pages eating through memory), then again i run Firefox Nightlies, so i don't expect everything to work 100% all of the time(it updates every day, some builds perform much better than others - and some just run terrible).

Might be helpful to post info about your browser and OS, just to see if those of you having problems have any common denominators, such as specific browser version(as one example).

Also be sure to disable any additional plugins or components you have installed in your browser, such as third party toolbars and such. If your browser has a safe mode, try that and see if the same issue occurs.