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tistou
Dec 12, 2019Bronze Contributor
Edge process
Hello It's an idea, where ever since Canary's versions, there are more and more Edge processes ? I disabled collections in Flags and still have the Collections process.... How do I turn it o...
HotCakeX
Dec 12, 2019MVP
Hi,
let's do a comparison
Microsoft Edge Version 80.0.360.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
Google chrome Version 80.0.3987.7 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)
I opened the same 4 tabs in each browser, separately. (4 tabs include: 2 techcommunity tabs, 1 youtube and 1 article on another website)
here is how the Windows task manager looks like for
Chrome
21 Processes
And for Edge
17 Processes
- tistouDec 12, 2019Bronze Contributor
Ok thanks 😉
It's true that I compared to the old Edge
I just find it weird to have 11 processes (in Windows Task Manager) on a single web page
And also in the browser task manager, only 7 ...The 4 more listed in Windows appear from where...

- HotCakeXDec 12, 2019MVP
It's normal
one process per tabone per extensionone for GOPU processesother processes for other tasks that I don't know about.lots of smaller processes vs one big one.
https://www.howtogeek.com/124218/why-does-chrome-have-so-many-open-processes/