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Dev channel update to 90.0.796.0 is live
This version is completely broken.
When starting EDGE, it takes 5-6 sec and the windows stays all white (no title bar, just a white rectangle)
this is 30 times slower than previous version - and very annoying - nearly unusable
- josh_bodnerFeb 19, 2021Former Employee
Yoneff and anybody else experiencing a white/hanging Edge, we've found that there's a particular flag that's causing this behavior. First, to make it so you can even get to the flags, start Edge from the command line with the --disable-gpu flag. Then, on edge://flags, click the button to reset all the flags to their default state. The flag in question is to force Edge's Color Profile, but that flag may be missing for some people, so the only way to reset it is to reset all of Edge's flags. In particular, that flag seems to be getting set to HDR10 for some people, and the hang occurs when that happens, so resetting it back to a non-HDR colorspace fixes Edge. For anybody this fix works for, please let me know!
- Jerry BumgarnerFeb 19, 2021Copper Contributor
josh_bodner This did not work for me
- josh_bodnerFeb 19, 2021Former Employee
Jerry Bumgarner also, for anybody who's experiencing Edge being all-white/hanging at launch, we need your help to get some more data about this. If you're able to to eventually get Edge into a working state after seeing it be all white, please go to edge://gpu and send me the logs on that page. If you're not even able to get Edge into a working state, we'd love to have dumps of both the main browser and GPU process. To figure out which is which, go to the Details tab of Windows Task Manager, right-click the column headers, go to Select Columns, check the box for "Command Line", then sort the processes by name. Once you get to all the msedge.exe processes, the GPU process is the one with --type=gpu-process in its command line, and the main browser process is one that doesn't have any --type string (other types you'll see include crashpad-handler, utility, and renderer)
- YoneffFeb 19, 2021Iron Contributor
josh_bodner https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/dev-channel-update-to-90-0-796-0-is-live/m-p/2148197/highlight/true#M44111
Unfortunatelly this does not helped either.
Flags are reset to defaults, browser restarted and still getting white window.
Can you please specify the flag name in question?
Thanks
- josh_bodnerFeb 19, 2021Former Employee
Yoneff The flag is "Force Color Profile", but it expired in Edge 89, so it's no longer available in Canary and Dev.
- TiagoRibeiroFeb 19, 2021Copper ContributorThanks. But still happens after resetting all the flags...
- Jerry BumgarnerFeb 18, 2021Copper Contributor
@josh_bodner This is happening to me also. Edge is almost unusable at this point