New Chromium based Microsoft Edge now generally available  

slicendice said:

Browsing isn't the issue here, the bookmarks manager is. Overall Edge Chromium is quite efficient. But managing bookmarks is taking more resources than a full blown SQL-Server with 100 clients connected and constantly requesting data. It's freaking ridiculous! And syncing does not work properly either, especially if I do a bookmarks move, nothing moves on the other browsers.

As, I said...a pile of poop.

Yeah, FF bookmarks works great, but so does Chrome. Syncing is 100% accurate and does not require a Quad-64-core CPU server setup to sync a few hundred bookmarks.

I have lost all hope. It has only gotten worse despite having spammed feedback since they started to work on this project. Must be a bunch of web developers who work on this browser, because it seems they don't have a clue how to do stuff efficiently. Bookmarks are just a few characters of text. Should take <1s to sync 1000 entries over a 350Mbit connection and CPU usage should barely flinch.

Hi there

why doesn't Ms outsource the whole kybosh to Google -- they've got the clout and development know how to do it -- Chrome on android is perfectly fine.

This whole browser mess really started a long time ago when there was some really silly Court case in the EU commission about Ms having a monopoly by integrating its browser (at that time IE) into the OS.

My experience with any sort of computing over the years is that if there is a need for an application that isn't proviided for on a current system or is implemented rediculously then a group of people will develop (usually) a better one.

Look at most Linux distros these days -- 100% free and really efficient --if there is a problem Open source developers usually get it fixed in double quick time.

I had to laugh at using SQL server to manage bookmarks (maybe there's a "mini hidden" SQL server in the book mark engine driving it !!! After all you can't let those cpu cycles go to waste on these nice ner bright shiny 4 and 8 core processors can you !!!)

cheers
jimbo

slicendice said:

Yeah, this is the main issue I have been complaining about since Edge learned to sync anything many years ago. All bookmarks are all over the place now, and look different on all 5 Edge versions/editions I use.

Hi there
I'm not a techie in this regard but a Master Slave thing can also cause problems surely if there has to be an "election" on who'se the master -- and if the master isn't up when you use a secondarey device --what then. This used to be a problem with the SAMBA server (fixed these days) with the server(s) continually checking to see "Who was the boss").


As for multiple systems @Cliff S

Currently testing 4 !!! on a small home network. Sometimes I have 8 running !!



cheers
jimbo

slicendice said:

LOL, all 4 editions of Edge with only favorites opened:




UPDATE: Up to 12GB of RAM usage now and CPU @100%

Hi there

I don't even think the Dogs in Battersea Dogs Home in London would eat that mess for their dinner.

Why doesn't Ms outsource the whole thing to Google --they've got the devlopers and cash --also Chrome on Andoid works just fine -- wouldn't though use it on Windows though.

As for 12GB of RAM -- I can probably run 6 more VM's in that space including a server or two !!!! --especially as I'm using KVM/QEMU hypervisor --incredibly efficient even running Windows VM's !!

Cheers
jimbo