Edge has become too slow in loading webpages now. It takes a few seconds dor the webpage to fully load and be functional. And it gets worse on any of microsofts webpages. Loading Outlook on the web and Office on the web takes approximately 5-10 seconds for loading the whole site and before i can work on anything. I've tried resetting the settings but still it's not speeding up.

Hey there haridev-c! What version of Edge are you using, and what's your OS & OS Version? Are you seeing this slowdown with other browsers as well? Can you try opening an In Private window of Edge and see if you still get the slowness on page load? Alex Rowell (she/her)Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeDiscuss Stable features and issues on the answers.microsoft.com forums, join us on Twitter, or join the communities over on Reddit in r/MicrosoftEdge or r/edge

Thanks so much for your quick response!This bit is interesting - "The In Private window of edge seems to be working fine though, i just checked opening the same sites on both In Private window and the normal Edge window."Just to confirm, you're not seeing the slowdowns with the In Private window? Are you running any extensions, by chance?

Thanks for confirming! Everything working correctly in the In Private window can point to a few things. The big one is that an extension is causing a slowdown, which is why I checked that first. Sounds like we've ruled that one out, so let's give tracking a quick look because that's a one-click fix. Can you navigate to edge://settings/privacy and confirm what level of tracking prevention you're using? You're likely set to Balanced, no need to change that if so. Next, on to the cache. Please navigate to edge://settings/clearBrowserData and try clearing it -- For the test here, so you don't get logged out of everything, try just clearing cached images and files for the last 24 hours. Let me know if that improves things at all for you! Oh, and just to confirm, it sounds like you only have a couple of tabs open at any time?

8-10 is super reasonable, I was mostly checking for something like 'I have 900 tabs open at once' 😉 Whole browser freeze is super interesting, and you have a fairly reliable way to trigger this... hm. Do you mind opening the Browser Task Manager (Shift + Esc on Windows) and navigating to one of the sites that causes slowdown and seeing what's going on Memory and CPU wise when you do? I'm expecting something to spike here, just not entirely sure what yet.

I know this isn't going to be a super helpful answer but I don't actually know what the numbers represent, I sort of consider them an abstraction on overall system load. Both of those are *quite high* though. Sorry for asking you to take the inconvenient path here, but do you mind fully clearing your cookies and cache for all time?

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Alexandra-R
Microsoft
Oct 21, 2021
Hey there haridev-c! What version of Edge are you using, and what's your OS & OS Version? Are you seeing this slowdown with other browsers as well?

Can you try opening an In Private window of Edge and see if you still get the slowness on page load?

Alex Rowell (she/her)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Discuss Stable features and issues on the answers.microsoft.com forums, join us on Twitter, or join the communities over on Reddit in r/MicrosoftEdge or r/edge
- haridev-c
  Brass Contributor
  Oct 21, 2021
  Thank you Alexandra-R for looking into my issue.
  I'm currently on Version 94.0.992.50 (Official build) (64-bit), and using a Windows 11 Home Single Language
  
  OS Info:
  Edition: Windows 11 Home Single Language
  Version: 21H2
  Installed on: ‎ 13-‎10-‎2021
  OS build: 22000.258
  Experience: Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22000.258.0
  
  I've checked with other browsers and I have not felt the slowness in page loading or reloading there.
  The In Private window of edge seems to be working fine though, i just checked opening the same sites on both In Private window and the normal Edge window.
  
  I've also noticed that just after startup or restarting the PC, the browser loads pages at normal speed.
  
  Normally, the first thing I use to do after opening my PC is to check my mail from Outlook. After that i dont close my browser, but instead minimize it to taskbar and work on other things. Then when i get back to browsing from Edge after a couple of hours, I encounter this slowness in loading of pages.
  
  Hope the above mentioned details helps in troubleshooting the issue.
  - Alexandra-R
    Microsoft
    Oct 21, 2021
    Thanks so much for your quick response!
    
    This bit is interesting - "The In Private window of edge seems to be working fine though, i just checked opening the same sites on both In Private window and the normal Edge window."
    
    Just to confirm, you're not seeing the slowdowns with the In Private window? Are you running any extensions, by chance?
Spelunky
Steel Contributor
Oct 31, 2021
haridev-c I have noticed this too
Maiku-kun
Copper Contributor
Oct 19, 2023
I've noticed this same issue. It seems like a DNS issue because as soon as I load the same site in Chrome, it fixes Edge. I really don't get it.

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