BrowserLink swamps browsers with requests and eats 100% CPU

Question

I've discovered that BrowserLink in Visual Studio 2013 is causing the browser to send hundreds of localhost requests per second (according to Fiddler), that leads to a very high CPU usage in Chrome and IE. As soon as I turn off BrowserLink the CPU usage dies down and works just fine.

This started happening a few days ago on a project and I can't pin down what have caused this.

I've searched about, found a few posts about this issue, but nothing better than turn BrowserLink off. And it is a very useful feature to have.

Any idea how to fix?

Calaboose

Related question: #23962481 Related MS Connect issue: connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Feedback/Details/1039946 – Try

@Try there are a lot of similar questions, but no good answer anywhere -( – Calaboose

connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/1039946/… - apparently after update 5, it should be fixed. Other suggested uninstalling whatever update included that feature. Or - obviously - disable browser-link #22785640 – Ebb