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Elliot Kirk
Former Employee
Apr 08, 2019

We're Listening!

Greetings Microsoft Edge Insiders! Let us start off by saying, welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insider community! We’re so excited to have you here, and we can’t wait to start learning from you. If...
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Dan_AI4GK
Iron Contributor
Oct 09, 2019

Elliot Kirk I already reported this via the :smile: button, but all the preview versions take a loooooong time to populate the printers dropdown when I go to print. I used to repeatedly click the "Add a Printer" selection, but it seems more like a timing thing. Sometimes it takes up to a full minute to fill that dropdown so I can select my system printer. Can that be fixed in the foreseeable future?

 

Thanks,

 

Dan

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    Drew1903
    Silver Contributor
    Oct 10, 2019

    Dan_AI4GK 

    Dan,

     

    We'll see what Elliot may say about this, but, as for myself... I cannot repro the behavior you have.  Upon Ctrl+P the Printer dialogue window opens, for me, immediately.  I take it you have a more instant reaction for this if using Edge?  Was it always slow or is this newly recent behavior?  Did you remove & replace (disconnect-reconnect) the printer?, if not, do that, too.

    Cheers,
    Drew

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      Dan_AI4GK
      Iron Contributor
      Oct 11, 2019

      Drew1903 

      Sorry, it took a while for me to reply. I've been busier than a 1-armed paper hanger!! 😁 Anyway, when I hit CTRL-P, the printer dialog comes up immediately, but the default is SAVE AS PDF. When I click in the Add a Printer, the list of printers doesn't populate immediately, and takes up to 1/2 or a minute.

       

      Traditional Edge uses the Windows 10 print dialog, and my default printer pops up immediately. Edge Can, Def, and Beta all use a different print dialog, probably based on Chromium.

       

      I'd post screen shots, but I can't get WIN-V to work on this page. I suppose I could save them as files and then upload them. I will, if you or Elliot need me to.

       

      Regards,

       

      Dan

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        HotCakeX
        MVP
        Oct 12, 2019

        Dan_AI4GK 

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        Dan_AI4GK wrote:

        Drew1903 

        Sorry, it took a while for me to reply. I've been busier than a 1-armed paper hanger!! 😁 Anyway, when I hit CTRL-P, the printer dialog comes up immediately, but the default is SAVE AS PDF. When I click in the Add a Printer, the list of printers doesn't populate immediately, and takes up to 1/2 or a minute.

         

        Traditional Edge uses the Windows 10 print dialog, and my default printer pops up immediately. Edge Can, Def, and Beta all use a different print dialog, probably based on Chromium.

         

        I'd post screen shots, but I can't get WIN-V to work on this page. I suppose I could save them as files and then upload them. I will, if you or Elliot need me to.

         

        Regards,

         

        Dan

        Hi,

        does the printer list take a long time to populate on all applications or only on Edge insider?

        for example try CTRL + P on Photos app or Word document and see their timings.

         

        Snip & Sketch is the most useful in these cases, specially when PrntScrn is set to launch it

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    • HotCakeX's avatar
      HotCakeX
      MVP
      Oct 10, 2019
      It's not happening to everyone obviously but that doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist, not everyone's computers and Edge browser is the same..

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