I hate windows, it f**king takes 10000 minutes to load microsoft edge browser on a newly bought laptop .

That's strange to hear; at one point Edge was always prefetched and parts of it were in memory so that it starts in like 0.5 s; don't know whether that's still the case.

@kamen Yeah , even i had experienced the speed on other pc's like few months back. But now on my own pc it takes serveral minutes to load

It's a shame prefetching is not configurable on Windows. I want to have FFox and VSCode to launch subsecond if I choose to load them at launch, but I don't want to launch them because I might not need them and they should just fall out of memory if I don't use them.

Buy another laptop with a proper ssd? Even on my passively cooled laptop it's launched in an instant. Both on w10 and w11

Maybe your laptop is a potato

Edge: < 5 seconds

Chrome: > 60 seconds
But I'm thinking MS being a bitch with other browsers or chrome has just had a lot more bloat added to it.

@C0D4 windows is caching edge in RAM at all times. There's a group policy to disable edge preloading. I would bet that's the catch of the fast startup: it's already started.

I would not say that it's a bad thing to do, actually. Considering how integral browsers have become to using a PC.

@iiii I suspected as much for edge, but is chrome really that slow these days or just my observations?🤔

I've stopped using chrome since edge suits my needs better for work anyway.

Works on my machine

Does your newly bought laptop use a HDD?

@RememberMe no ssd

don't use edge, then. use a less crappy browser. firefix. chrome. dillo. telnet.

@tosensei edge == chrome, maybe even better than chrome, because of additional features and no anal google integration.

@iiii It has MS integration instead, so it's kind of a "pick your poison".

@RememberMe you can get SSDs that are slower than HDDs

@electrineer how?

@iiii chrome = chromium + google-integration.

edge = chromium + microsoft-integration + awful UX and everything. your choice which one is the lesser evil.

but the worst thing about edge: it's the reason IE isn't being updated anymore. but IE is still out there. especially in corporate environments = our customers. which means: we are still stuck at the technology level that IE provides, which is not a lot, and since enterprise middle management is the epitome of incompetence, stupidity and general head-up-their-arse-ness, we'll still be stuck to that level for at least another decade.

@tosensei You can increase all prices by 10% (compound) for each year since the release of the oldest browser you're expected to support.

Sane update policy: 100%

IE11: 214%

IE10: 236%

IE9: 259%

IE8: 314%

IE7: 418%

IE6: 673%

IE5: 740%

IE4: 895%

@tosensei what is awful about edge's user experience? Or are you being edgy? Chrome is the most barebones shit on the market. There's literally no user experience except frustration at Apple-like "it just works".

@iiii well, for starters the fact that windows, with every single forking update, tries to shove it down my throat as default app for every-forking-thing.

it doesn't matter if it were good. even if it were the best browser in the history and future of browsing, if it does not respect my choice not to use it, it is complete, utter, unredeemable garbage that does not deserve to exist at all.

@tosensei haven't noticed any shoving on my end. Firefox was never deassigned from being the default browser.