New MS Edge terrible!

[zippy3x]

Mr Pointy said:

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

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sarcasm

[snuffy]

Mine updated weeks ago on both my laptop and desktop and it works fine.

[red_slr]

Mr Pointy said:

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.

Not clinging on, but giving it chance for a day or two. Like I said it will probably take me a while to move over my data and passwords etc. Looking into the suggestions above btw. If no joy the FF it will be!

[chow pan toon]

No problem here across a range of machines from a 12 core beast to a Core M3 Surface Pro 4.

[the internet]

Absolutely no problems here either.
You must have some real st installed on your pc that's fking it up. Not their problem ... it sounds like it's yours.

[Murph7355]

Murph7355 said:

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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.

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Fast for me. Maps works fine and streetview is very quick.

Can't figure out how to change what page opens with a new tab though. I don't want Bing!

[RobDickinson]

new edge should be fine its just chromium without google tracking but with a bit of ms spice.

hate the way it was pushed into my face via windows update though

[eltawater]

Google maps is super speedy here on the new browser running on a pithy little Core i3.

[Ozone]

Murph7355 said:

Can't figure out how to change what page opens with a new tab though. I don't want Bing!

Have a look here under 'Add your own URL'

[red_slr]

the internet said:

Absolutely no problems here either.
You must have some real st installed on your pc that's fking it up. Not their problem ... it sounds like it's yours.

Its a work PC we keep installs pretty clean, there is the following:

MS office
Windows mail
Edge
Adblock plus
Adobe
CCTV client software

Thats it.

Its a fairly recent PC specialist machine, i5 8400 6 core, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD.

Running latest version of windows 10.

Its the same this morning. Its running like dial up. If I load youtube it loads the thumbnails like its 1997. 1 line at a time!
Google maps loads 1 tile at a time or 1 layer at a time. I cant see it being anything else other than an issue with the new version as the old version ran perfectly.

[red_slr]

Something weird going on because it wont play youtube in anything other than the lowest resolution 144p...

Is there a throttle on this thing or something?

[Ozone]

might be worth re-setting or re-installling

https://www.windowscentral.com/five-ways-fix-commo...

[eltawater]

Hit F12 in Edge to open the developer bar. Click on the network tab and look at the waterfall when you open up a google maps page. Watch for anything highlighting in red or with a very long bar in the waterfall.

Open your windows task manager and watch the CPU usage in the performance tab when browsing around in google maps or loading youtube.

Got any antivirus software which is playing silly buggers? Try disabling that whilst browsing around google maps.

[the internet]

Very odd.
When you say it's a work pc, do your work IT folk install other guff you don't know about?

It's not reached my older pc yet which is lower spec, I'll see what happens with that.

[nmd87]

Must be your implementation. Working fine for me on both home PC and work PC. Slow loading of the sites you mention such as YouTube suggests a network issue, assuming you connect through a VPN. Can you ping the sites in question from a command prompt and get a reasonable response time?

[Mr Pointy]

nmd87 said:

Must be your implementation. Working fine for me on both home PC and work PC. Slow loading of the sites you mention such as YouTube suggests a network issue, assuming you connect through a VPN. Can you ping the sites in question from a command prompt and get a reasonable response time?

How come Firefox works for him just fine then?

[nickv]

working great here win10 work pc, i am keeping it pretty clean and using it just for work related things, it seems faster than GC to me but i have quite a few extensions on google chrome, hence i though i would try and run as clean a version edge chromium as i could

Google maps loads and finds destinations quick as flash

[red_slr]

I am the IT Dept (and all other departments!)

Our connection is 40mb down rock solid so thats ok and all other sites ok. All other PCs ok (not W10 though all W7)

Will try the waterfall thing now...

[red_slr]

Hm, so an example from the waterfall

Loads of files 3ms - 5ms
Then loads more 5-10 seconds...

Tried again and some were as long as 12.83 seconds.

Wonder if is a cookie thing?

[eltawater]

What are the long loading time ones? Right click in that panel, header options tick "url"

Anything common between the long loading time ones, are they all being requested from a certain site?