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pneenkoalabear
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Jun 09, 2019

Netflix memory leak

I believe my memory leak is caused by PlayReady DRM. Leaving it paused for just 5 seconds makes it go to 500MB while on Chrome it's 166MB. Going to edge://flags to disable PlayReady DRM means that Ne...
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pneenkoalabear
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Jun 17, 2019
it goes higher than 500MB. YouTube which can play at 1080p doesn't do this
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cbomtempo
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Jun 17, 2019

pneenkoalabear I guess you should check how's your memory after watching 30 min of movie and then checking again after watching a full hour. If the memory use is almost the same then it's not a memory leak!

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    pneenkoalabear
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    Jun 17, 2019

    DarrenH 

    It's fixed! I can now play Netflix videos! :D

     

    It uses up 190-230MB. Still more than Chrome though :( at least it doesn't go overboard

     

    On Edge UWP:

    I was able to play a video but it was using up 280-330 MB which is quite a bit compared to Chrome Canary but as Darren said, it is playing at a higher resolution with DRM too although it used up that much when browsing and not playing any videos. Unlike Edge Chromium, Netflix starts using up memory really quickly but thankfully doesn't go any further than 330MB. 

     

    cbomtempo Were you able to play Netflix content at the time of the original post? 

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      cbomtempo
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      Jun 18, 2019

      pneenkoalabear I do not tried as I was not allowed to access it from the machine that I had it installed.

       

      For now I'm using the Version 76.0.182.6 (Official build) dev (64-bit) version and I have no issue watching Netflix.

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