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Edge is too slow in loading webpages
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?
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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.
- 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?- No, im not seeing any slowdowns in the In Private tab.
I used to use an Adblocker till now. But after you asked, i removed it form the browser, closed and reopened the browser to test for the issue again. And unfortunately the issue still exists.
If it could be of any help, i noticed that this site (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com) loaded much faster than Outlook or Ondrive did. Certain websites seems to load pretty much normally, and certain other sites takes too much time to load.
And lastly, every website seems to load normally in the In Private windowThanks 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?