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Limyx826
Iron Contributor
Apr 28, 2021

Weird Edge not responding and RAM eating behaviour 2

Hello again. Now this is part two of the Edge incredible behaviour of eating RAM and this time I have pictures! Jokes aside, this time I had similar experience to the last time I had with this behaviour last year. Here's link to the post last year: Weird Edge not responding and RAM eating behaviour

 

This time I just have two tabs opening YouTube videos, one is playing music videos and the other is a video pausing. While I was listening to the music and nearing the end out of sudden the video started to buffer. At first I thought is my internet connection so I checked it with my phone I found out there are no connectivity issue. Then I clicked on the browser again to find out the UI is not responding though the window is still working as I still able to minimize and maximize. 

 

I opened the task manager to see what is going on the I found this: 

 

 

Edge is eating up 4.5 GB of memory while its UI is not responding. After I left it sit for a while, the browser is then back to normal. All webpages are working correctly and no issue afterward. Task Manager also shown the result as this: 

 

 

The version of Microsoft Edge I am using is Version 91.0.864.1 (Official build) dev (64-bit). 

4 Replies

  • Schnittlauch's avatar
    Schnittlauch
    Steel Contributor
    Hi Limyx826,
    Do you have any hidden Edge add-ons?
    Anyways, as IT technician I would recommendend u the Brave Browser. ;D
    Good luck,
    Schnittlauch ^^
  • Tygarys's avatar
    Tygarys
    Copper Contributor

    Limyx826 

    Have you tried turning off hardware acceleration? I started having issues like this with youtube videos and that seemed to fix it. 

    • Limyx826's avatar
      Limyx826
      Iron Contributor
      Will do, though that being said this problem only happens once in a while so it is not such a big deal for me but I might check it, thanks.
      • Shaurya12's avatar
        Shaurya12
        Copper Contributor
        I turned off hardware accleration. Stil consumes lots of RAM and CPU

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