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sambul95
Iron Contributor
May 25, 2019

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...
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sambul95
Iron Contributor
May 28, 2019

sambul95 

 

Another popular website that currently appears broken is YouTube showing older UI. It seems to be just a matter of Google selectively pushing different pages to varying browsers. Its likely to be fixed later by negotiating the issue with Google. 

 

But if you're in rush to use modern YouTube interface, try this:

 

Install User-Agent Switcher, then change UA to Opera for Windows. Or check your browser UA and edit it to current Chrome UA string for MS Edge in the extension Options.

 

Now if you're unhappy how Google treats Edge Chromium at their popular sites, isn't Edge team doing the same right now with many sites outside North America, like Western and Eastern Europe, by exhibiting high CPU load forcing users to switch back to Chrome that works perfectly well with near 0% CPU load on the same sites? Let's be fare to everyone instead of claiming Edge Chromium is discriminated against.

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Foghorn
Copper Contributor
May 28, 2019

sambul95 So, what is the point?  If Microsoft does that, it is ok to do for Google?  We are not talking about Microsoft here.  We are talking about Google.

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