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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...

sambul95

Iron Contributor

May 18, 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.

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.

sambul95
Iron Contributor
May 19, 2019
dvdwnd

High CPU and GPU is a known issue everyone is complaining about. See this thread: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Browser-and-GPU-process-are-much-higher-compared-to-Brave/m-p/574838#M3477

But there is no indication Edge team is working to fix it. They never commented or give any ETA. I'm back to Chrome for now, my older laptop fan is winding up like turbine when Edge is idling. :)