New MS Edge terrible!

[red_slr]

Anyone else having problems with it?

It refuses to load google maps and many other google services.

Pretty much the slowest browser I have ever used!

Why on earth would MS do this to people is beyond me?!

[mikees]

Just tried on Windows 10 work laptop. Very slow to start with, but then speeds up a bit. Is it Bing causing the issue as well? Mine loaded Maps but took its time. Also tried Explorer which was a bit faster. Mine you Brave on my iMac pi55es over both of them

[red_slr]

Not sure but its a royal PITA.

I have all my work / personal passwords saved in Edge so I dont want to go through having to re enter everything on a new browser but its looking like I might have too. I need at least 4 google map tabs open at once all day basically and its just basically refusing to load the second tab let alone 3 or 4..

[Mr Pointy]

red_slr said:

I have all my work / personal passwords saved in Edge so I dont want to go through having to re enter everything on a new browser but its looking like I might have too. I need at least 4 google map tabs open at once all day basically and its just basically refusing to load the second tab let alone 3 or 4.

You should be able to export your passwords from Edge into a CSV format file. See here:
https://www.groovypost.com/howto/export-passwords-...

It's a recent article so should work. You can then re-import the file into a decent browser such as Firefox. Alternatively consider using a Password Manager such as Keepass, One Password or Lastpass.

[TimmyMallett]

red_slr said:

Anyone else having problems with it?

It refuses to load google maps and many other google services.

Pretty much the slowest browser I have ever used!

Why on earth would MS do this to people is beyond me?!

I run it (alongside Chrome on a work laptop) and maps is fine for me? I also use Drive and Gmail, all works fine. Tried updating it?

I've just tested using Maps side by side with Chrome and Edge is just as quick. Neither are uber fast but that's because I go via my work VPN.

Edited by TimmyMallett on Wednesday 24th June 10:21

[zippy3x]

red_slr said:

Anyone else having problems with it?

It refuses to load google maps and many other google services.

Pretty much the slowest browser I have ever used!

Why on earth would MS do this to people is beyond me?!

I just tried opening 8 google map tabs on my desktop and 4 tabs on Surface Pro 3 (getting a bit long in the tooth). Both worked exactly as expected.

For me speed feels a bit faster than Chrome, with the possible exception of YouTube which feels a bit faster in Chrome.

[devnull]

New edge is based upon chromium, which Google Chrome uses as its engine. I think it's great. I can have all the features of chrome, plugins etc, with slightly less tracking than chrome. Literally everything I need, including google apps, work perfectly in it. I know that it's not helpful to say "wElL iT wORKs fOR mE" but it's been in test for a bloody long time and is pretty mature out of the box (using it now for example).

[red_slr]

zippy3x said:

red_slr said:

Anyone else having problems with it?

It refuses to load google maps and many other google services.

Pretty much the slowest browser I have ever used!

Why on earth would MS do this to people is beyond me?!

I just tried opening 8 google map tabs on my desktop and 4 tabs on Surface Pro 3 (getting a bit long in the tooth). Both worked exactly as expected.

For me speed feels a bit faster than Chrome, with the possible exception of YouTube which feels a bit faster in Chrome.

No its running dog slow, i.e 60+ seconds to load street view.
If I use a page with embedded maps it fails to load the map its that slow.
Other google services seem to be effected, adwords and youtube that I have seen so far.
Gmail seems fine. If anything faster.

Most other websites are ok, running fine.

I will see if it will update but given it only updated on Monday I doubt it!

[red_slr]

Well still getting no where updated windows several times... seems to be ok 1 minute then carp the next.

Going to download firefox and see what that does! :/

[rsbmw]

I've been using Edge dev (still am) since it was released and prefer it to any other browser. Have had no issues at all.

[red_slr]

Well just tried firefox and its fine and works well.

So defo an issue with Edge. I am not going to move over to FF today as I hope and pray that MS will sort this as I cant be some unique set of drivers / windows build that only me is having this issue.

Logging into adwords was taking over 5 minutes.... in FF it was about 3-4 seconds. Hopefully they will be able to fix this quickly!

[stevoknevo]

I don't know what they've done to it as I don't use it, but the latest Edge update on W10 absolutely borked my internet connection on the PC - was working absolutely fine, notification saying it needed to restart to install update, wouldn't connect to my router after it. Won't let me uninstall the update and I spent 2-3 hours getting it back online, but only getting a third of my usual download speed (when it's not being a flaky mess and taking an age to load anything) - think I'm going to have to reformat the bugger due to the feckin eejits.

Edited by stevoknevo on Wednesday 24th June 14:55

[feef]

Having issues on Jira, where I get pages stuck partially loaded an unresponsive. They work fine in Chrome.

[Mr Pointy]

red_slr said:

Well just tried firefox and its fine and works well.

So defo an issue with Edge. I am not going to move over to FF today as I hope and pray that MS will sort this as I cant be some unique set of drivers / windows build that only me is having this issue.

Logging into adwords was taking over 5 minutes.... in FF it was about 3-4 seconds. Hopefully they will be able to fix this quickly!

Why are you clinging on to Edge? it doesn't work so just dump it & move over to Firefox. None of the browsers are vastly different anyway so use one that at least has a good library of extensions so you can implement features you like.

[P4ulB]

Nope.

Running absolutely fine here - loads Google maps and everything else Google in a few seconds.

The new chromium based Edge is very good.

Works a treat on every machine I've used it on so far (all Windows 10 with all latest updates including the 10 year old PC I'm typing this on)

Edited by P4ulB on Wednesday 24th June 15:21

[NMNeil]

Why are you surprised?. It's Microsoft which means it has more bugs than a junkyard dog.
Linux Mint with Firefox. Never had any problems ever.

[Murph7355]

Mr Pointy said:

Why are you clinging on to Edge? it doesn't work so just dump it & move over to Firefox. None of the browsers are vastly different anyway so use one that at least has a good library of extensions so you can implement features you like.

My view too.

I've just been presented with "new Edge" (old one was st)...will give it a quick go later but if it offer nothing new, let alone gives headaches, I'll just ditch it.

Been using Brave for a while which is pretty good. Lack of bookmark sync between devices is a pain but not really insurmountable.

[mmm-five]

'Old' Edge was crap, and was Microsoft's own engine (EdgeHTML).

'New' Edge (v83) is built from Chromium (i.e. Google Chrome without as many privacy concerns) - it also has a enterprise configurable legacy IE mode so you can seamlessly use a single browser for modern sites and those clunky intranet sites/apps your company doesn't want to (or can't) upgrade.

Works fine for me on both Mac (2 machines) and Windows (2 machines) - none of them have a problem with 10 google services tabs open.

New Edge Chromium can also use all the extensions from Chrome web store.


I'm not saying it's better than any other modern browser, as I use a few different ones (Safari, Edge Chromium, Brave, Firefox, Opera, Tor Browser), with different profiles, for different tasks - but there's no Google Chrome on any of my machines.

Edited by mmm-five on Wednesday 24th June 16:33

[zippy3x]

NMNeil said:

Why are you surprised?. It's Microsoft which means it has more bugs than a junkyard dog.
Linux Mint with Firefox. Never had any problems ever.

Granted, with killer wasps, potential for WWIII, worldwide plague, race wars etc, it's been hard to keep up, but is this year the year of Linux on the desktop.

Edited by zippy3x on Wednesday 24th June 16:45

[Mr Pointy]

zippy3x said:

Granted, with killer wasps, potential for WWIII, worldwide plague, race wars etc, it's been hard to keep up, but is this year the year of Linux on the desktop.

At the risk of going off tangent, no it isn't. This is a very long watch but it makes a number of very valid points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZN5n6C9gM4