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*UPDATED* Dev channel update to 88.0.705.9 is live
foo_bar I suspect this is happening because of Edge's fast startup feature where closing Edge causes it to re-launch in the background so the next startup will be faster. One way to confirm would be to close Edge, then look in Task Manager to see if there are still any Edge processes hanging around. If so, killing them and then restarting the computer will prevent this message, I suspect. Either way, this shouldn't be happening though, so I'll let the team know.
josh_bodner wrote:foo_bar I suspect this is happening because of Edge's fast startup feature where closing Edge causes it to re-launch in the background so the next startup will be faster. One way to confirm would be to close Edge, then look in Task Manager to see if there are still any Edge processes hanging around. If so, killing them and then restarting the computer will prevent this message, I suspect. Either way, this shouldn't be happening though, so I'll let the team know.
josh_bodner I guess that is in fact the problem. I closed Edge and opened the task manager and found several msedge.exe processes still running. I ended the process tree for those and then re-opened Edge. Again got the restore pages dialogue box.
foo_bar Good to know! We've been trying to re-create this ourselves and also think that some of the extensions you have installed may also be a contributing factor if some of them are running background processes that live even after the browser closes (which may also be one of the reasons you're seeing background Edge processes). It would then be expected that you'd also see the prompt when you kill those background processes since killing a process is indistinguishable from it crashing (which means you should have seen a slightly different message).
josh_bodner I didn't see any replies if the potential fix was helping, however, you hit the nail on the head with extensions still running in the background when Edge closes. I am running Version 88.0.705.63 and disabling the setting "Continue running background apps when Microsoft Edge is closed" fixed the issue for me. It may not be a true "fix", but I prefer to have this setting disabled anyway, so for me it works perfect. Thanks!
