Mar 13 2021 11:18 AM - edited Mar 13 2021 11:19 AM
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 want to make sure it's not just my system here.
I can reproduce it on two systems, same Edge & Windows 10 builds.
1. Open edge://history
2. Type in the left-side search.
3. Wait 3-10 seconds for Edge to populate.
4. Erroneously, you may get "no results found" initially, as even Edge doesn't understand how slow its search is.
Example video:
Deleting 1st item: ~1000 milliseconds
Deleting 2nd item: ~7500 milliseconds
Searching for 'cats': ~7500 milliseconds
These are just atrocious speeds. Are others seeing this or is this bug not affecting everyone? It genuinely does not compute why it should be this slow.
Mar 13 2021 11:42 AM - edited Mar 13 2021 11:52 AM
Search performance is fine for me on Edge version 89.0.774.50 (Official build) (64-bit)
instantaneous. (less than 1 second). i used "Twitter" and "instagram" keywords, lots of history entries belong to them, but Edge also showed me history from before Edge stable was installed (used cloud search), because this Windows installation is only few days old.
I also deleted 1 entry from each keyword, took around 2-3 seconds to disappear from the list. I think it's more related to the sync and how Edge should delete it from my Edge stable, cloud and Edge canary that's also open at the same time.
I'm on a 4 years old NVMe SSD (read speed benchmark right now shows: 2200 MB/s).
Mar 14 2021 11:07 AM
Cheers for the reply. :folded_hands: It does seem to be a peculiar bug. I'll keep a running log of what's been tested, in case someone else stumbles on this issue and/or there's something to be troubleshooted on my end:
I'll investigate why Edge Dev is working, but Edge Stable is not.
Mar 15 2021 02:32 PM
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.
Mar 24 2021 04:26 PM
After another 30 minutes of troubleshooting, no luck:
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.