

Microsoft announced the public release of the new Edge on January 15, 2020. During development (codenamed Anaheim), Microsoft made preview builds of Edge available on Windows 7, 8/8.1, 10, and macOS. In 2019, Microsoft announced plans to rebuild the browser as Chromium-based with Blink and V8 engines. It was first released for Windows 10 and Xbox One in 2015, for Android and iOS in 2017, for macOS in 2019, and for Linux in 2020, and can replace Internet Explorer on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later versions but unlike IE, this browser does not support Windows Vista or earlier versions.Įdge was initially built with Microsoft's own proprietary browser engine EdgeHTML and their Chakra JavaScript engine, a version now referred to as Microsoft Edge Legacy. Microsoft Edge is a cross-platform web browser created and developed by Microsoft. Proprietary software, based on open source components, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S system software To update and install the latest Microsoft Edge browser, you can click on the Edge menu, select Help and Feedback, and then About Microsoft Edge.Īt this screen, Microsoft Edge will automatically check for the new update and install it.Linux (specifically Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distributions) We can now browse YouTube, watch videos, and read comments without the processes getting too large and crashing in our tests. On Friday, Microsoft released Microsoft Edge 90.0.818.62 to the Stable branch and fixed the YouTube problem. I'm not entirely sure when that will be, but I will follow up with you once I know. The Canary fix I mentioned helped a lot of people, but not everyone, and there's an upstream fix coming in soon. I can also say that if you are still experiencing this, we're still working on getting it sorted out. "It is indeed video related, I can confirm that much. In BleepingComputer's tests, YouTube no longer froze when using Edge Canary, while other users reported that the bugs continued to happen.Ī Microsoft Edge engineer posted to a Reddit thread that their fix has helped many people, but not everyone, and that they are still working on a complete fix. Users who experienced this issue noticed that one of their Microsoft Edge processes would begin to use gigabytes of memory, which eventually led it to crash.Īt the time, Microsoft acknowledged the issue in numerous Reddit discussions and asked users to try Microsoft Edge Canary to test a fix that they were working on.
