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Edge Dev not Loading
Steven1625 And, Steven, more as an illustration as my macbre sense of black humor than anything useful, I keep an eye on Task Manager on and off during the course of the day to see just how bad it gets. If I use the browser for a few hours, it isn't unusual for me to see Edge Dev running 30-40 instances, eating up 3-4gb or more of memory. It isn't a problem on my desktop, which has 32gb, but for someone running a laptop on 4gb or 8gb, it must really throw a wrench in the machine.
tomscharbach , agreed, it builds over time. Just checked since I posted my original message and I am up to 9 task so far.
I do not reboot my computer, I just kill all the running Edge Dev tasks and that clears it up.
Thanks for your feedback.
Steven1625 Thanks for the tip on restarting the browser. That does clean it out and it is simple to do.
I've reported the issue through the feedback smiley, so the Edge team can look at it and figure it out. The trade press has reported many times that Chrome (and hence, Chromium) is a resource hog, and I expected Edge Chromium to be a significant memory hog in contrast to Edge Classic and Firefox. But what we are seeing is remarkable. It is the "builds over time" issue that alerted me that something is wrong, and that is why I reported it. I'll pass along any information I get from the Edge team about the issue.
tomscharbach @Steven1625 If you would file a feedback from the in-app experience, that would help us understand what is going on here. In the meantime, I am forwarding this thread on to the folks that manage reliability. Thank you both for testing our preview channels, and for taking the time to give us your feedback.
Elliot Kirk "If you would file a feedback from the in-app experience, that would help us understand what is going on here." I filed a feedback earlier today, with a screenshot of Task Manager showing resource use. I hope that will be sufficient, but feedback has my e-mail if they want more detail information.
