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Browser and GPU process are much higher compared to Brave
Edge Insiders,
My name is Tim Scudder and I’m a member of the Edge performance team. I wanted to provide an update on this issue: we were able to repro the problem locally, we have a fix coded, validated and are now working to get this change into our next dev drop (estimated to be 76.0.166.0).
We apologize for the inconvenience, but truly appreciate everyone’s help in isolating the problem.
NOTE: We are also aware of a https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=962784 that also has CPU/battery impact that originated upstream in Chromium's codebase. This issue has been fixed upstream and we are also working to make sure the fix is in our next dev drop (again, estimated to be 76.0.166.0)
Regards,
Tim Scudder
Possible corroboration? I hopped on here because I noticed background CPU usage for Edge seems unreasonably high. I only have two tabs open and they are both for static pages. I closed and restarted the browser and there was no change. I checked in the browser "task manager" (accessible by right-clicking on the title bar) and "GPU process" seems to be gobbling a lot of CPU cycles. Why is this happening when there is basically nothing going on in the browser?
[Edit] Figured I would mention the system specs, my system has an Optimus configuration of Intel HD Graphics 4000 and Quadro M5000M, but when I took this screenshot I was accessing it remotely over Remote Desktop.
[Edit 2] For comparison, I just opened Chrome for a comparison check. I opened the exact same two tabs. The extensions installed are the same. In Chrome, the "GPU process" sits mostly at 0% CPU use and occasionally spikes to 3%. Why is it so busy in Edge?
