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What is it with Microsoft Edge ?

I'm finding it's appallingly slow at the best of times but the last few days it gives you a page but you can't move on from it.

Then you go to refresh it and all you get is 'Microsoft edge is not responding'.

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SW-User

They tried to reinvent chrome for Microsoft and called it edge. It has its own engine. If you go to your task manager you’ll see how much resources it consumes. Just keep a couple of tabs open at a time but that doesn’t work sometimes. A reason why I’m not a fan of Microsoft products but use them at times.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User Never used to use it until i had to reset my operating system and stupidly went to Microsoft to do it.

helenS · 36-40, F

@SW-User [quote] It has its own engine [/quote]
I think Edge uses the same Chromium engine.

SW-User

@helenS You are right and Chromium has its own bugs. It creates threads that don't die out even if you are not using the browser.

helenS · 36-40, F

@SW-User I understood there are serious memory leaks.

SW-User

@helenS Indeed, I was debugging a nodeJs app that was using Chromium to create PDFs from web browser to generate power usage reports for customers. I'm not a developer, but I do my coding to save money because paying a programmer costs almost an arm and a leg and I just started my business a couple of years ago. I found out how bad the utility is. It crashes or times out and doesn't collect the objects it has created. I was blaming it on node for not having the proper garbage collector, but I found out that Chromium is the culprit as well. I had to explicitly kill the chrome instances after every exception. Not an ideal way to do it, but it stopped the bleeding till I replaced it all with java.