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Neither the Chromium or nonChromium based versions of Edge behave like that. It seems like your work machine has something impeding performance.

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The Chromium based edge has not been released outside of Insider/Beta previews currently so the GP’s experiences aren’t relevant to the current chromium based builds.

> It seems like your work machine has something impeding performance.

I thought it might be that, but it so happens we had to get a Windows 10 machine for home use for a particular purpose, and Edge on it is also slow (though perhaps not quite as slow as my work machine). Both are Dell laptops, so it's possible that Dell puts some extra OEM stuff in that hurts performance.

I'm on a Lenovo X1 Thinkpad and Edge definitely doesn't feel slow to start here (it's instant), and while pages are maybe a bit slower to load than Firefox Quantum, I wouldn't call Edge slow. I can't compare against Chrome though - I don't use it because it chews through battery.

I think I have seen that disappearing mouse issue though, and mostly I use Edge when I double click on a PDF file and forget I don't have a PDF reader installed....

Not slow for me as well. It's my second browser beside FF and has the far better text to speech. Hard to compare performance, since my usage pattern differs widely between the two. But my biggest complaint would be tabs sometimes crash-and-reloading and some websites not rendering (bugs.chromium.org is an example).

Wonder how annoying the switch to chromium will be :/

FWIW I always thought of Edge as slow but just recently I picked up a Surface Go. It's not a fast computer... but somehow, Edge is pretty fast on this machine.

Every single version of Edge I have used has had unexplainable random pauses and jitter in GUI responsiveness. If they do some "clever" side-thread processing and queueing of inputs, I can imagine where this comes from. It was the number 1 thing preventing me from giving Edge more than a cursory try.

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