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Marco Mollace
Brass Contributor
May 16, 2019
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Browser and GPU process are much higher compared to Brave

Hi! I was comparing Edge vs Brave and I noticed that Edge uses about 30-50% of my CPU in Browser task manager (both browser and gpu) while Brave uses less than 10% combined. I think there is some p...
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    Tim_Scudder
    May 22, 2019

    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

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Elliot Kirk
Silver Contributor
May 20, 2019

We are aware of an issue that is impacting CPU and could reduce battery life.  We have a high priority bug tracking this issue and are actively investigating.  Thank you for self-hosting Microsoft Edge and alerting us of the issue. We will communicate the status of the issue in our dev updates.

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sambul95
Iron Contributor
May 21, 2019

Elliot Kirk 

"We have a high priority bug tracking this issue and are actively investigating."

 

And that's what I got in today's email from Edge Support:

"I've been asked to have you use the Microsoft Edge Preview feedback tool for help on this issue. Looks like yours may be the first feedback on the issue. The engineering team uses customer submissions from that tool as a means to learn customer issues and track them. 

 

Can you share this bug number with us and the link to track it, just like Mozilla's Bugzilla does?

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