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Drew1903
Silver Contributor
Apr 28, 2019

Must say...

Certainly, many others have spoken to this, but, I feel like saying it (again, maybe, anyway).  Nobody better to say it to than, y'all, I reckon. This is running Edge Dev & or Canary side by side ...
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sambul95
Iron Contributor
May 23, 2019

Drew1903 

 

Drew1903 wrote:

Current Edge Chromium Preview loads sites quicker and is generally, snappier & more responsive. 

Certainly that's my impression too. What I suspect it caused by is "empty browser" syndrome, compare as Edge Chromium - it likely carries no extra "wait" so far compare to mature Chrome loaded with Google Services. As Edge devs will start getting ads control in, antivirus plugins, Microsoft Services under the hood, we'll likely see gradual performance drop to familiar Chrome level or below it.

 

Chromium lately uses https://pureinfotech.com/enable-lazy-loading-speed-up-pages-chrome/ feature to speedup webpages load and rendering. In this approach invisible page areas below the edge get picture and frame placeholders first. The flag should be available and enabled by default in Edge Preview.

 

Chromium also includes https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discarding feature aimed at getting RAM use by numerous open tabs under control. Edge Classic doesn't have a similar mechanism,  and in my tests often crashed at medium to heavy multitab browsing on older PCs due to RAM overuse.

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