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The new Microsoft Edge is here! Built on an open-source foundation called “Chromium", it will help you browse the web reliably, securely, and productively while protecting and respecting your privacy with powerful features like Collections, Tracking prevention, Extensions and more. Learn more about the new Microsoft Edge.
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I'm getting a lot of what appears to be a black formatting screen that flashes between sites before loading the page. It's instantaneous and too fast to read but highly annoying.
Do I need to reset something? Anybody else getting it?
If you keep an eye on memory usage on your Windows devices and run a device with Windows 10 version 2004, you may have noticed that Microsoft's new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge web browser uses less memory on that version of Windows.
The new Microsoft Edge web browser uses the same core as Google Chrome, and Google's browser is notorious for using a lot of RAM when it is in use. Memory use depends largely on the activity on the Internet; users who open just one or two sites will see less memory usage usually than users who open lots of sites and keep them active.
Microsoft seems to have found a way to reduce the memory usage of the company's new web browser but only on Windows 10 version 2004. The company released the feature update for Windows 10 last month and has rolled it out slowly to eligible devices.
According to a blog post by Microsoft Principal PM Manager, Microsoft Edge, Kim Denny on the Microsoft Edge Dev blog, the new Microsoft Edge may use up to 27% memory less on the new version of Windows 10 than on previous versions.
Denny explains that Microsoft implemented Windows segment heap memory improvements in the browser that reduce memory usage.
With the Windows 10 May 2020 Update, Microsoft Edge has leveraged the Windows segment heap memory improvements now available for Win32 applications to manage memory more efficiently. Early internal testing results of devices on the May 2020 Update are showing a memory usage reduction of up to 27% when browsing with Microsoft Edge.
Segment Heap has been available to UWP applications only in previous versions of Windows 10. Microsoft announced Project Reunion recently in an attempt to unify the Windows development platform. With UWP having stayed behind expectations, Microsoft decided to unlock UWP specific APIs such as segment heap so that Win32 programs can use these as well.
Microsoft Edge is the first Win32 application that makes use of segment heap but the API is available for all developers. It is possible that other browsers, e.g. Firefox or Chrome, and also other programs, make use of the API to reduce the memory usage of applications that run on the Windows 10 <<
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ZDNet has a comprehensive take on this here: zdnet.com
<< ... the annoying screen flashing on my system. The Menu Bar installation caused it. >>
Interesting. I've had the ' Proper Menubar' installed and in daily use (and been using functions of the bar itself) for about 2 weeks with no sign of the annoyance you described. Glad to hear you've seemingly solved your problem.
Interesting. I've had the ' Proper Menubar' installed and in daily use (and been using functions of the bar itself) for about 2 weeks with no sign of the annoyance you described.
My Dell tower 8300 is going on 8.5 years old with the original video card, so go figure. Computers are so much fun!!
For years, Microsoft has made the browsers that choosy web users loved to hate. First there was Internet Explorer, with an endless supply of security and compatibility issues. Then there was the original version of Microsoft Edge, which shipped with early releases of Windows 10. It was significantly better than Internet Explorer (granted, that's a pretty low bar), but there were just enough problems to make it unacceptable for everyday usage. That's why Google's Chrome browser is hands-down the most popular software on the web.
But all that changed with the release of the new Microsoft Edge (same name, new logo), which is now widely available on every major desktop and mobile platform. Because it's built on the same open source Chromium Project code base that Google uses for Chrome, it's almost a perfect clone of Chrome for things that matter, like rendering web pages and working with third-party code. It's ... really good.
In fact, you might find the new Edge superior to Chrome in some respects. Google's business model is based on knowing everything you do on the web, whereas Microsoft's business model is based on paid services like Office 365. As a result, the new Edge is considerably more privacy focused than Chrome. And it has at least one killer feature that anyone who uses the web for research will appreciate.
If you're interested in switching, your first step is to install the new Edge from its official download site. Then follow these 10 steps to get things set up right from the start.
These are the 10 Steps (without the detail and screenshots Ed provides. Each one is worth carefully reviewing. See the article at link above to review each one, ...
1. Choose an Edge release channel
2. Set up profiles
3. Set up sync
4. Turn on Tracking Prevention
5. Add extensions
6. Get your passwords under control {or use a 3rd party password manager]
7. Customize the New Tab page
8. Pin your favorite sites as apps
9. Adjust your privacy settings
10. Organize your research into Collections <<
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It's a very worthwhile article and over the course of this month I'll step carefully through the 10 steps. I still use Firefox as my primary browser but Edge will likely be my secondary browser permanently and likely I'll use it significantly more than I have used a secondary browser in the past, As Ed says, ... EDGE is 'really good.'
