Chrome and Edge flickering/lagging on second monitor (MSI GE75, RTX 2070) - Firefox works fine
Hello. I have an issue with my MSI GE75 laptop running Windows 11 with an RTX 2070. When I use a second monitor Dell connected via HDMI, content inside Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome starts flickering and lagging. Firefox works fine on the same setup. The laptop is MSI GE75 with RTX 2070 and Intel iGPU. The second monitor is a Dell. Browsers affected are Edge and Chrome. Browser not affected is Firefox. I set Edge and Chrome to run on the RTX 2070 in Windows graphics settings. All drivers are updated. All settings are on maximum. The issue is flickering and micro freezes while scrolling or playing videos on the second monitor. This does not happen on the main laptop display. I already tried switching Edge and Chrome to High performance GPU RTX 2070 in Windows settings with no effect. I updated NVIDIA and Intel drivers with no effect. I disabled hardware acceleration in Edge and Chrome which reduces the issue but performance drops. I set both monitors to the same refresh rate 60 Hz but the problem persists. Since the problem only happens with Chromium based browsers and only on the second monitor, I suspect it could be related to how Microsoft rendering pipeline interacts with Chromium hardware acceleration. Firefox which uses a different rendering backend works fine. My questions are: Why does this only happen with Chromium based browsers but not Firefox? Is this related to how Windows and Chromium handle GPU acceleration on a second monitor? Is there a known fix or workaround to make Edge and Chrome work properly on the second monitor? Thank you in advance for any advice.Brave browser - how Edge insider compares to it
Brave was first founded in May 28, 2015 Brave 1.0.0 was released in November 9th, 2019. That's 4 years spent in Beta. Microsoft Edge? in January 15th 2020, the first stable version will be released. that will be 10 months spent in Beta. lots of people agree with this, that Edge needs to be feature rich before it is called stable and final. I wish Microsoft make a browser so that the first thing I always do after installing a Windows OS wouldn't be going to the internet and downloading a different browser because the built-in browser is not good enough for me. but in order for that to happen, lots of things must be added. lots of things must be learned from different browsers. one of them is Google chrome. now I don't like Google as a company and I have very good reasons for it. like this Google quietly removes "don't be evil" preface from code of conduct and this this Google has access to detailed health records on tens of millions of Americans but in order to become better than them, Microsoft needs to apply the same features Google chrome has. such as allowing for new tab page search engine to be changed another one of the browsers that are a good examples is Brave, Brave has Tor support for private browsing, and support for torrent downloads. Support for Torrent is really awesome! I use it a lot but I have to install a torrent client such as Qbittorrent to use that protocol. Windows has never added any support for Torrent protocol, none of the Microsoft products have had anything to do with Torrent before. Torrent files should be handled the same way as the normal files are. one step towards this is when user clicks on a Torrent file or Torrent magnet link, the browser automatically recognizes it and starts downloading it the same way it does for HTTP/HTTPS files on servers.
AutoImportAtFirstRun fails when Google Chrome is configured with a 'Set user data directory' value
Google Chrome has a GPO named "Set User Data Directory" under 'Google/Google Chrome' If that policy (which prevents users from configuring their own user data directory and forces a specific data location) is configured the data import fails, and Edge doesn't understand where to find the Google Chrome data to import. It also prevents future auto-import capabilities.Very Impressive Edge insider Canary Results in HTML5 Test (Plus other browsers) Comparison
Here is the the score of browsers to see how much of HTML5 technologies and features they support. In order of highest to lowest. Edge insider Canary Version 79.0.286.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit) Highest Score Google Chrome Canary Version 79.0.3924.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit) FireFox version 71.0a1 (2019-09-26) (64-bit) Edge classic (EdgeHTML) Microsoft EdgeHTML 18.18990 Microsoft Edge 44.18990.1.0 Internet explorer 11 version 11.1.18990 Internet Explorer 11 (latest version) obviously has the worst score, but it's the only browser that can manage to get the perfect 100/100 score from Acid3 test among all these browsers tested. the rest of the browsers can only get 97/100. By the way, Acid3 is an old test. https://html5test.com/ http://acid3.acidtests.org/ Comment down below what you think. I for one am hella impressed by Microsoft Edge insider's score!Tab Grouping needs So much improvements
Tab grouping in Edge insider canary is worse than Tab grouping in Google chrome stable Edge insider Version 81.0.375.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit) VS Google Chrome Version 79.0.3945.88 (Official Build) (64-bit) so in Google chrome, when I go to a website (Any website) and then right-click on a link (could be video, post, picture etc), Google chrome automatically puts my original tab and the new tab into one group and gives it a color. Then if i open a new website in a third tab, it has no group by default but once i right-click on a link on that website and open it in a new tab, the same grouping happens. these groups with different colors help us recognize which tabs belong to which website/group and make things easier to manage. in Microsoft Edge, I have to right-click on each tab and create groups manually. P.S if you are wondering how to activate Tab Grouping: you have to go to here: edge://flags/ then find this from the search: Tab Groups and set it to enabled restart your browserHas Microsoft helped Chromium or Google chrome to show history in Windows 10 Timeline/TaskView?
I'm on Windows 10 insider fast ring build 19035 and i'm seeing that all of my web history from Google chrome canary Version 80.0.3987.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit) are in there! there are also 2-3 web history, all of them from offline PDFs opened inside Edge, in there too from Edge insider canary. i don't know what's happening, I don't have any extension in Google chrome nor Edge insider to add my history to the Windows 10 Timeline/TaskView but they are automatically appearing in there, so I wanna ask if you guys (developers) have made this happen by contributing to the Chromium project? it's really a good thing but i don't know why Google chrome got this feature first before Edge insider[FIXED] Your session has expired Error popping up all the time! Edge insider Canary
I'm trying to upload a video at https://web.microsoftstream.com/ and I'm getting this error every 10 seconds which forces me to refresh the page all the time and won't let me get anything done. I have this behavior in both Google Chrome Canary Version 80.0.3965.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit) and Microsoft Edge Canary Version 80.0.331.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit) sent it as smiley feedback along with problem recreatePlease Officially Add Extension menu button on the toolbar as an option in settings or Flag
Please Officially Add Extension menu button on the toolbar as an option in settings or Flag currently we have to use this method in Edge insider to use it: Here is how you do that on Windows: Right-click on Microsoft Edge in the Start Menu or taskbar, and select Properties. You may right-click a second time on the taskbar on the Microsoft Edge entry in the menu that opens before you may select Properties. Switch to the Shortcut tab if it is not active by default. Append --enable-features=ExtensionsToolbarMenu after the path in the Target field, and make sure there is a space between the end of the path and the parameter. Here is a sample line to get a better idea how it looks like: "C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge SxS\Application\msedge.exe" --enable-features=ExtensionsToolbarMenu Select ok to save the selection. Restart Microsoft Edge. there needs to be an easier way to do this like this flag that Google Chrome stable has it (ver 78) but Edge insider even ver 80 doesn't have it!The W3C helps keep the web an open technology but faces difficulties like Google Chrome dominance
The World Wide Web Consortium helps keep the web an open technology but faces difficulties like Google Chrome dominance. The World Wide Web Consortium has been around for a quarter century. A few years after Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, he also established the W3C to standardize how it works -- a critical foundation to the technology. Open standards mean anyone can build web technology, whether it's a browser or a website. That openness is in strong contrast to, say, writing apps for iPhone or Android apps or Windows, where a company sets the rules. No single entity holds control over the web. The W3C celebrated its 25th anniversary Tuesday with a little bit of self-description and self-promotion but also with a reiteration of Berners-Lee's warning about the work needed to keep the web from turning into a cesspool. Berners-Lee is trying to establish a "contract for the web" to counteract hate speech and censorship while ensuring everyone gets access. Berners-Lee is stepping beyond the confines of the W3C to try to further some of this vision, helping to found a startup called Inrupt designed to let people reclaim control over their own data from giant corporations like Facebook and Google. The web and the W3C faces other challenges, too. For one thing, Google's Chrome browser dominates web usage, and few have the budget or ability to keep up. Combined with Google's power in designing very popular online services, that gives the company a lot of control and means that, to some degree, the web is what Google says it is. The W3C also has had missteps. It abandoned the core standard used to build a web site -- HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language -- and only belatedly tried to reassert control after browser makers banded together to continue its lineage through a separate group, the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). That tussle over control was only resolved in May as the W3C agreed to follow the WHATWG's lead through a formal collaboration. But the W3C, a nonprofit with 50 employees and 450 members, has plenty of work still under its purview. It's tackling subjects like online ads, web game technology, privacy, car technology. The web may not be perfect, but it's moving ahead. Source
