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Is searching history on edge://history slow for anyone else?
This is on stable using the edge://history dedicated history page (though it replicates on the pop-up menu, but I've avoided that entirely). I've already submitted feedback with video evidence, but I...
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 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/business/download. 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.