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Is searching history on edge://history slow for anyone else?
Search performance is fine for me on Edge version 89.0.774.50 (Official build) (64-bit)
instantaneous. (less than 1 second). i used "Twitter" and "instagram" keywords, lots of history entries belong to them, but Edge also showed me history from before Edge stable was installed (used cloud search), because this Windows installation is only few days old.
I also deleted 1 entry from each keyword, took around 2-3 seconds to disappear from the list. I think it's more related to the sync and how Edge should delete it from my Edge stable, cloud and Edge canary that's also open at the same time.
I'm on a 4 years old NVMe SSD (read speed benchmark right now shows: 2200 MB/s).
Cheers for the reply. 🙏 It does seem to be a peculiar bug. I'll keep a running log of what's been tested, in case someone else stumbles on this issue and/or there's something to be troubleshooted on my end:
- Edge updated to 89.0.774.54. No difference.
- Disabled all extensions. No difference.
- Unchecked and rechecked History sync. No difference.
- Some time after step three, the bug disappeared on the laptop at least for a few hours.
- Rebooted. No difference.
- Edge Dev is quite weird: with the the same search term, Dev has many more results than Stable, but also does not suffer from the bug. This makes me believe, in fact, Edge Stable is so slow, it's missing many older results (as I stop waiting after 20 seconds).
I'll investigate why Edge Dev is working, but Edge Stable is not.
And then sometimes it's so slow, the entire search times out while it searches.
Will consider a reinstall next, if it doesn't clear up on its own.
After another 30 minutes of troubleshooting, no luck:
- Reinstalled Edge using the offline installer. No changes.
- Cleared Edge's cache. No changes.
- Ran SFC /scannow. No "integrity violations" and no changes.
- Tried Edge Dev. Moderately improved, but completely different results (from weeks ago).
- Disabled activity history in Windows 10. No changes.
What an unusual problem. I checked how many items I had and 30k sounds relatively normal:
Once the search term is entered, the CPU usage does jump from 0.5% to 19%. But this is a relatively fast CPU (i5-8600K) and it's benchmarking just as fast as it should be (~1200 1T in Geekbench 5).
Why it's isolated to a single system does not make sense: aren't these all synced? Unfortunately, Edge Chromium does not have a "repair" install, so back to twiddling my thumbs.
Maybe I should install ProcMon again.
