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Eleanor_Huynh
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Jul 17, 2019

Have feedback on the performance of Edge? We're Listening!

Greetings Microsoft Edge Insiders!   My name is Eleanor and I am a Program Manager at Microsoft on the Edge team. I am new to this forum and am so excited to be here and learn from all of you! Th...
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vincethewipet
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Jul 18, 2019

Eleanor_Huynh 

One thing that is really crucial for me is the perceived speed of scrolling. A web browser should stay responsive at all time. Pure rendering speed is important, but even a slower browser can give a better impression to the user if that user can still scroll on a slow page without any latency or dropped frames.

The old Edge is pretty good at that. You can see sometime that the rendering is struggling behind the scene, but user inputs are always perfect.

Right now Chromium Edge has a little bit of latency on touchscreens and precision trackpads, compared to UWP apps on Windows 10. I think the user should have to same scrolling experience on Chromium Edge than any UWP app. 

Since watching movies is such an important part of a web browser experience these days, Chromium Edge should match the old Edge in term on performance and battery life when playing a video. Right now, GPU usage is higher.