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theschwoogler
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Jun 11, 2024

edge keeps running in background regardless of settings

First of all, yes, I have already disabled 'speed boost' and turned off the setting that allows extensions and apps to continue running after closing edge, and still when I look at the running tasks there are multiple edge processes there (sleeping or otherwise) after exiting.

This is obviously an unnecessary waste of memory and processor resources etc., but what is much worse than this is that any credentials established with websites using integrated authentication are  also maintained and used again when the browser is re-launched.

So if multiple people are using a machine and one authenticates against a website using integrated authentication and then they close the browser and leave, their credentials are applied when whoever uses the machine next accesses that same site.

This would seem to be a fairly serious security issue, and I have submitted this as a bug through the browser's feedback mechanisms, but has anyone else experienced this and/or found a solution?

 

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  • David1940's avatar
    David1940
    Copper Contributor
    I have the same issue, did Microsoft not do anything about it yet?
    • theschwoogler's avatar
      theschwoogler
      Copper Contributor
      no I have not seen or heard any response from them and it is still an issue in the latest version; I have to repeatedly use the task-manager and kill it to remove the stored credentials
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        theschwoogler
        Copper Contributor
        and to update this, I have recently added a DWORD registry entry named StandaloneHubsSidebarEnabled=0 under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge and this *seems* to have the desired effect of stopping the garbage from running in the background

        but really, even if this works, what kind of nonsensical sh!t is this to have to do just to get an application to actually exit when you terminate it...

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