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Broken Websites
Let's dedicate this thread to websites, which exhibit unusual behavior in Edge Insider. They either don't open or work as expected, or cause high CPU and/or GPU load when in focus. One can check...
Open issues:
a) https://www.7tv.de/ = videos cannot be switched to full screen (button does nothing). EdgeDev & Canary. Other browsers are working.
b) http://audioexperience.dolby.com/ = "LEAF" video (on the left) does not work / play. EdgeDev & Canary. Old Edge is working.
c) Flash Player content -> switch content to full screen = complete white screen. EdgeDev & Canary. Other browsers are working.
Example: http://wwwns.akamai.com/hdnetwork/demo/flash/default.html
(enable Flash Player = edge://settings/content/flash )
(all problems also reported via smiley button)
Fixed issues:
a) https://www.funkykarts.rocks/demo.html = crashing on loading (fixed since version 76.0.167.0)
b) https://www.dailymotion.com/ = video preview pics are broken (fixed since version 76.0.161.0)
Its an interesting phenomena going on now with Edge Insider. Many folks are trying it on websites, which don't work well or fast enough in Chrome. While Edge devs mostly concentrate on optimizing performance of the most popular sites to match Chrome performance, like YouTube ets.
As a result, Edge mostly works well on North American popular sites. But in other world regions many sites cause high CPU and GPU process load in Edge Chromium, while Chrome works perfectly. I wonder whether Edge team purposely wants to limit the browser testing now to North American domains?
Or this happens because local advertisers use JS and other browser hogs not frequent on NA sites? I tried to switch off all 3rd party scripts in uBlock Origin on such sites, but Edge high hardware and PC fans load continues on many foreign domains. I wonder if someone else noticed that?
sambul95 Hi, I currently cannot confirm your high CPU/GPU problem here in germany on my two Windows 10 build 18362.145 devices (desktop [i7-6850k / GTX 1060] & notebook [i5-7200U / HD620]).
I use Edge Dev and Canary without any extension. If I load websites, I see for a short time spikes over 25 % and then under 6%.
Are you using a different anti virus program than Windows Defender?