How Microsoft Fixes One of the Biggest Problems of Chromium Browsers

Google Chrome has long been a major resource hog, and despite so many improvements shipped by the search giant, it’s still the browser that eats up an insane amount of memory even with just a handful of tabs running at the same time.

But on the other hand, this isn’t something that’s just limited to Google Chrome, and the high CPU and RAM usage is a “feature” that was also borrowed by other Chromium-powered browsers.

Including Microsoft Edge, that is, as the new default browser in Windows 10 runs on the same engine as Google Chrome – the Chromium engine also allowed Microsoft to bring Edge to non-Windows platforms, so the app is also available on macOS too, with a Linux version also on its way.

So yes, Microsoft Edge also comes with the high memory usage too, albeit at first glance, this problem is not at big as Google Chrome’s. In other words, while Edge too eats up too much memory on Windows 10 devices, it’s far from the resource hog that Chrome has become.

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