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josh_bodner
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Oct 08, 2019

Dev channel update to 79.0.294.1 is live

Hello insiders, today we’re releasing build 79.0.294.1 to the Dev Channel!  It’s a pretty normal week this week, so you can see the most noteworthy changes below:    Added Features:   Added...
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Oct 11, 2019
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lindhartsen wrote:

josh_bodner I see others are reporting high CPU utilization on this build in macOS Catalina. I'm experiencing the same thing and it's with static pages. At one point I saw my CPU utilization by Edge get near or exceed 500%. I'm unclear the cause since it seems to just increase over time and I'm looking at largely static pages, downloading files, and not watching video/listening to audio from the browser.

lindhartsen 

 

Hi,

 try disabling "Microsoft Defender SmartScreen" from the Edge insider settings

some people reported doing that will fix the issue as a workaround

 

 

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lindhartsen
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Oct 11, 2019
Thanks for the recommendation. Tried that this morning and CPU usage is back to normal.
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    josh_bodner
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    Oct 11, 2019

    lindhartsen and in case anybody else is still seeing high CPU usage, we had quite a few separate bugs this week that caused higher CPU usage, and we got a couple of fixes for some of them into today's Canary (301) that should also help.  

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      HotCakeX
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      Oct 12, 2019
      Hi,
      It's all good here on Windows 10, but those on Mac experiencing high CPU usage was mostly related to SmartScreen, when they turned it off they reported that things went back to normal for the most part. Thanks
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    HotCakeX
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    Oct 11, 2019
    You're welcome, hopefully the bug will be fixed so you will be able to use Smart Screen again without high CPU usage 🙂

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