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Top feedback summary for September 4
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Quality Area | Edge should use less memory than it does | 2 weeks |
Quality Area | Edge should use less CPU than it does | 2 weeks |
Edge currently accounts for 56% of my battery use. I have one tab open right now, and Task Mgr. shows four different Edge processes running, for a grand total of 325 MB of RAM. The old Edge used to be very easy on system resources. Now it's become a hog like Chrome before it. That is why I dropped Chrome to begin with.
These were my stats running one tab of Edge and one tab of Chromium (although I'm not sure if extensions running in the background play any part of the memory usage):
- They definitely do. you can check the taskmanager of the browser itself for each extensions' footprint
