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quinncom
Jun 12, 2021Copper Contributor
Edge browser 100% CPU, requires Force Quit (macOS Mojave and v91.0.864.48)
I'm reporting a problem I've experienced with Edge since I began using it six months ago. After using Edge for a few hours, it will begin using 100% CPU. According to the Task Manager, it is the "Bro...
trooters
Feb 11, 2022Copper Contributor
I've continued to submit feedback reports to Microsoft along with spin dumps and sample dumps. I am narrowing this down... after i close all the browser windows i fire up Browser Task Manager to look at the remaining Edge Tasks running. I have a browser task at 100% CPU, and i start killing off the other tasks until the Browser CPU drops. I'm seeing a pattern where i have multiple "Utility:Collections Entities Service" workers and one of them, after being killed, will allow the Browser Task CPU to drop down to 0. Seems like a bug somewhere in the Collections Entities Service, but of course, i'm not truly debugging this thing just narrowing down the scenarios.
cygao
Sep 06, 2022Copper Contributor
I can validate this. After killing the "Utility:Collections Entities Service" (I have only one though), the CPU usage dropped to <10