Greetings Microsoft Edge Insiders! My name is Allison and I am a PM working on improving the performance of the new Microsoft Edge browser. Previously, your feedback let us know that there are times when Edge uses too much memory and CPU. When was the last time this happened to you? What were you doing in this situation? What was your biggest concern about that amount of memory and CPU usage? We are curious about this and would love to learn more. Thank you for giving us your honest feedback. I look forward to hearing more about where you see Microsoft Edge meeting your expectations, and where it isn’t. Allison -The Microsoft Edge Team-

Allison_Pastewka I would like Browser Task Manager to have an option to always be displayed on top of the other windows (including obviously the Edge window), so it is better for me to monitor the memory and CPU usage of pages and extensions as I browse the pages.

There are 2 most common places that I usually get high system resource usage1. randomly on this forum which leads to that tab being unresponsive and I have to force close it.2. on VK.com when viewing my feed which contains many images, gifs, videos files etc. in there the scrolling beings to lag and the whole experience becomes painfully slow and laggy.Edge classic with EdgelHTML engine loads that page very smoothly.using Windows 10 latest version fully updated.

josegime47 There is nothing wrong in that , indeed.But after you initially let them know and haven't received a reply, continuously poking new messages on the same issue (which again hasn't been addressed yet) is plainly spamming your issue to carve attention upon it. Not nice behaviour on a platform where many users exist.I personally started to be bothered by it as you also spammed my email Inbox with those things.So please be more considered of us, the other users who are interested in this topic and are following the progression, as well.Thank you

josegime47 Spoiler (Highlight to read)josegime47 wrote:HotCakeX Don´t know what are you referring to but, if you call spam trying to let know Allison Pastewka, who by the way hasn't answer to any, that there is room for improvement in the impact of Edge in resources, then mad spam it is. wrote: Don´t know what are you referring to but, if you call spam trying to let know Allison Pastewka, who by the way hasn't answer to any, that there is room for improvement in the impact of Edge in resources, then mad spam it is.posting multiple comments in the same thread in a short period of time about the same subject is spamming.you could put them all in the same comment.also many people can/are subscribed to this thread, your spam sends a lot of notifications and Emails to them as well, me included.

Allison_Pastewka Hello. my friend has very often high CPU and aperated memory when working microsoft edge. it happens even with everyday tasks. such as visiting sites watching movies downloading files, etc. the load on the processor jumps up to 100%. still wanted to add his wish. I would like notifications from sites even when microsoft edge is closed.

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josegime47
Brass Contributor
Nov 17, 2020
Allison_Pastewka

Loosing battle ....
josegime47
Brass Contributor
Sep 27, 2020
Allison_Pastewka

This is another test with Edge Canary one open page in each one. Firefox and Slimjet.
- Coddy
  Brass Contributor
  Sep 27, 2020
  josegime47 why the mad spam ?
  - HotCakeX
    MVP
    Sep 27, 2020
    Yeah that spam was mad.
josegime47
Brass Contributor
Aug 27, 2020
Allison_Pastewka

By the way, I want you to know that I have Edge as my default browser. My only interest in participating in this community is that there is always room for improvement.
Thanks.
josegime47
Brass Contributor
Jun 23, 2020
Allison_Pastewka

This is another comparison with one open page each:
olavrb
Brass Contributor
Jun 23, 2020
Edge applications (Menu -> Apps -> Install this site as an app) seems to always consume more CPU than it should. Like, easily 5% CPU usage (i7-8665u), just by idling in the background.

Chrome with 10+ open tabs consumes less CPU. At least as many extensions installed in Chrome as well.

Is this a known issue/ a pattern others observe as well?
sauravyad500
Iron Contributor
Jun 20, 2020
It consumes whopping 100% CPU and 200MB RAM at startup freezing my all other running applications. Totally dislike it. And I don't ever use cast, I don't like to see it on the context menu.
sauravyad500
Iron Contributor
Jun 20, 2020
Why its only CPU/memory and why not GPU on your performance list. edge://surf cosumes lot of GPU 50% GPU on my amd where it should barely consume 5%.
josegime47
Brass Contributor
Jun 19, 2020
Allison_Pastewka

I have Edge 83.0.478.54 and hope this gets better in the future.
https://news.softpedia.com/news/how-microsoft-fixes-one-of-the-biggest-problems-of-chromium-browsers-530291.shtml
josegime47
Brass Contributor
Jun 17, 2020
Allison_Pastewka

I've said this in this very forum (one of them on 8/31/19: "I've tried several browsers. I would recommend that you take a look at how Slimjet manages memory. I have found that Slimjet is the chromium browser that has the least impact on memory".). You said (Reza Ameri), "and try to improve performance in Microsoft Edge, That's very good. But, perhaps, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. There are others browsers out there that you can look into, Slimjet is one of them.
Kam
Silver Contributor
Jun 15, 2020
Allison_Pastewka Reza_Ameri-Archived HotCakeX

Please make MS Edge energy-efficient. I am running MS Edge Version 85.0.538.0.
- Reza_Ameri-Archived
  Bronze Contributor
  Jun 16, 2020
  Kam improving performance is exactly what Microsoft Edge teams are doing.
  
  They are reviewing log files , feedbacks, reports, ... and try to improve performance in Microsoft Edge.
  - Kam
    Silver Contributor
    Jun 16, 2020
    Reza_Ameri-Archived Allison_Pastewka HotCakeX
    
    ok, ok

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