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Elliot Kirk
Former Employee
May 16, 2019

Dev Update to 76.0.159.0 is live

Hello insiders, today we released build 76.0.159.0 to the Microsoft Edge Dev Channel. Some of the fixes and improvements in this build are in the change summary below   New features and improveme...
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ikjadoon
Bronze Contributor
May 18, 2019

Drew1903 

 

I actually much prefer the full page for Edge settings. I never liked the small pane Edge used: on desktops & laptops, I prefer seeing it all in once place. And the search function works reasonably well.

 

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I'm also getting much higher CPU, RAM, and even GPU usage with 76.0.159.0 (Official build) dev (64-bit). I've reported it via the Smiley face. 


My CPU fan was at 80% with just a few tabs open, on an i5-8600K! I thought I'd mistakenly scheduled a render for the middle of the day.

 

Sometimes, both Edge & "Desktop Window Manager" have similar CPU usage, but perhaps a red herring.

 

More concretely, the RAM usage is quite high: Google News + this forum + Settings and I'm at 1.9GB!

 

 
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sambul95
Iron Contributor
May 19, 2019

ikjadoon 

 

"The RAM usage is quite high"

 

In edge://flags, try enabling "Proactive Tab Freeze and Discard". It may not work though, as the devs suppressed "page-almost-idle" Chromium flag. In addition, install The Great Suspender extension from Chrome store.

 

However, without fixing the High CPU Load bug, its all meaningless.

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    dvdwnd
    Brass Contributor
    May 19, 2019

     

    sambul95 wrote:

    However, without fixing the High CPU Load bug, its all meaningless.

    So you're also seeing high CPU? I guess it must be quite common. I just installed Canary on a more capable desktop PC in addition to a laptop I've been testing it on, with different CPU/GPU and OS version, and sure enough it's there too (although not as bad):

     

     

     

    This is from having a single tab with example.com in Edge Canary, compared to a few "real" sites in Edge Classic. The only way to get the CPU usage to a manageable level is to minimize the browser, but it never gets the Suspended (green leaf) indication.

     

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