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Startup Boost FAQ
Yeah, I've had this for a week or so now, but I've not turned it on.
I use the Sleeping tabs feature and for me I see this as defeating the purpose of Sleeping tabs, which is to save/free up resources. I look at it like one is defeating the other. For me, why would I turn something on that uses and keeps resources and then turn something on that frees resources.
Ok so you want to be able to start your browser faster, but for me I do not see it taking so much time to start edge that it would need this. Edge starts quick enough for me on its own.
Like I said, for me, I see no need for it, but I'm sure lots of others will.
But this is just my 20cents worth.
Dennis5mile
Dennis5mile I agree .. even from cold boot, browser startup takes no significant time at all. Certainly a negligible amount of time compared to the network roundtrips to fetch even a simple web site.
Maybe it's a different story for older slower systems without SSD drives? But then, on those systems, do they really have RAM to spare to hold half dozen msedge.exe processes alive?
And if those processes get paged out to disk (swapfile) will they really resume any faster than a freshly started process?
I am skeptical .. imho this needs to be measured, on real world customer systems, not in a test lab -- and across both older/slower and newer/faster configurations. And if it's only saving a few milliseconds of startup time, it's not worth the added complexity and trouble.
- on real world, I've been testing this for a couple of months, it is useful and I see significant speed boost when I try to launch Edge.
I'm using SSD on M.2 port, one of the fastest, with startup boost, Edge launches instantly, without it, Edge takes a little more time.
so far I'm not talking about after restarting your computer, just when you normally close Edge and then reopen it, immediately or some time later.
that being said, it's also useful after Windows login, Edge launches faster since its components start loading as soon as possible.
you can disable startup boost, only for when Windows boots up, by disabling Microsoft Edge in startup section of task manager.
Startup boost in Edge is useful in more areas other than when you start your computer. the main advantage is when you close Edge and reopen it immediately or some time later.HotCakeX I do see Edge listed in TaskMgr startup list .. but I don't have any setting re startup boost in edge://settings/system
Hopefully the screenshot I pasted is visible..
I suspect something is horked with my install, but no idea what. It's a 2-week old clean install .. nothing but Office and Visual Studio installed. :shrug:
If there area any registry keys or anything else I should look at, which control the visibility of features in edge://settings, I'm keen to learn.
- Yeah. I think so! Too.
- That's actually a good point of view!
I think sleeping tabs and start up boost is 2 completely different features for 2 different types of people.
people that have enough system resources and modern hardware can turn on startup boost to make things even faster, while people with low to mid hardware can use sleeping tabs to save resources.- Yes, all good points. They are definitely covering all their bases which is a good move on their part...
Dennis5mile- Thanks for checking out startup boost and sharing your feedback, Dennis! Valid points and great discussions!
