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Daniel Velez
Brass Contributor
Jan 22, 2021

Edge 88 Slow Opening Websites

Hi, Recently I upgrade to Edge 88, and found it to be very slow opening webpages.  I did some research, and found a post Reddit with a solution that worked for me.  Just go to the Proxy settings and...
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binaryhelix
Copper Contributor
Jan 26, 2021

Daniel Velez glad to see I am not the only one encountering this issue.

 

What resolved the issue for me was going to Settings > Privacy, search and services and disabling the following setting:

Use secure DNS to specify how to lookup the network address for websites

 

My device is already configured to use Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 secure DNS via Network Options in Control Panel, so I have no qualms about disabling this in Edge.

 

As soon as I disabled Use secure DNS to specify how to lookup the network address for websites page times returned to their normal speedy selves  ^_^

 

What's weird though is I am still seeing the "Downloading proxy script..." message appear as a status message at the lower-left corner of the browser UI 😛

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srfteixeira
Copper Contributor
Jan 26, 2021

binaryhelix Can confirm. Have cloudflare dns set on windows settings. If I turn off "Use secure DNS" on edge settings, even with the windows setting "Auto detect proxy settings"turned on, don't see "Downloading proxy script..."  and edge is not slow anymore.