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Edge Canary 95.0.1003.0 spawning multiple new Windows
With today's update to Edge Canary 95.0.1003.0 it is spawning multiple new Windows at start up and constantly thereafter after some time delay.
Effectively unusable.
This is even a worse problem than I thought. Now if I close Edge Canary and open Stable, Canary is automatically opening and spawning new windows.
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Hey folks!
Confirming this is resolved in version 95.0.1008.0 https://twitter.com/MSEdgeDev/status/1435283493865484289
Thanks for all your reports and feedback on this, we truly appreciate it!
Alex Rowell (she/her)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Join us on Twitter, or over on Reddit in r/MicrosoftEdge or r/edge- Yes. indeed. I just updated to 95.0.1008.0 and not a single extra window has been launched. 💪
- 95.0.1008.0 seems to fix it
It's not just sync, at least, not on my side. I'm running Canary on both my PC and my iPhone and sync is enabled. The behavior I have noticed is the following: opening a new tab on my phone will almost always result in (a) new browser window(s) opening on my PC. My phone and PC are on the same home network, (PC is wired and the phone is on wifi) but are not directly connected or interacting in any way (no Bluetooth pairing/connection, the phone isn't syncing with iTunes via Wi-Fi, etc.) Would be interesting to hear if anyone else is experiencing this same cause/effect pairing. Anyway, that's how the bug manifests on my hardware, though it does sound like the devs have this one pinned down already 🙂
- I've noticed that when I get notifications on my phone, sometimes new tabs open. I have the Your Phone app syncing notifications so I'm sure that's part of it.
I resolved my issue temporarily by turning of sync. Once I turned this off it stopped spawning multiple windows. Nothing like coming back with Canary left open in the morning and come home 10 hours later to a bunch of spawned windows.
- Turning off sync only delayed the inevitable. But it did take a lot longer to spawn the new window.
I sure hope this gets fixed soon. It's even happening for me when I switch to a different browser and force Edge to close through the task manager. It won't stay closed and keeps spawning new windows. Does anyone know of a way to keep an app from opening, at least for now? If not I might have to uninstall Edge Canary until this is fixed.
- I stand corrected. It seems to only extend the spawning period. As of the time of my post and just now one window spawned.
I have the same issue but interestingly, even after I temporarily made Firefox the default and closed Canary multiple new windows still spawned.
edge canary doesn't pop up again if you force quit it from task manager. if you manually close the windows you have to scroll down and end its background process. it's outstanding that this is the first broken build of canary since I've used it for over a year.
- For me, the problem seems to accelerate quite rapidly.
Within initial launch of Edge and one minute of use, it managed to loop-create new windows until the plug-ins started crashing and the entire browser chrashed in a glorious out of memory moment.
Unfortunately Edge is entire unusable for me, and nothing will be further tested, until this issue is resolved. - same here
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Version 93.0.961.38 (Official build) (64-bit) - Getting the same problem in Version 95.0.1004.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit). Spawning 4 to 7 instances of Edge Canary.. Mostly seems to happen while away from PC for 30 or so minutes...
Dennis5mile
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