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

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.

@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

@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

@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%