[dba-Tech] Microsoft Edge

[Gustav Brock]

Hi Susan

I tried the two sites at home on one of our Lenovo Yoga 2 tablets also with Edge – powered with a modest Intel Atom Z3745.

Both sites open in a few seconds, then adds loads, and after about 15 seconds the video starts playing.

WAN speed here is 15 Mb/s.

So Edge appears to be a non-issue for these sites.

/gustav

Fra: Susan Harkins<mailto:ssharkins at gmail.com>
Sendt: 15. februar 2016 18:15
Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'<mailto:dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Microsoft Edge

Both of those sites churn and churn for me. I can't use them thumb to move
down to see anything -- it hates that! Maybe that's a clue?

That dummies link never did stop churning -- I could read it and view the
video, but the icon continued to churn.

Susan H.

Here, the dummies site loads in 5-15 seconds with Edge and starts playing
the video.
Browsing to a new page is about the same.
With IE it's about 5 seconds, but that's without the video which is blocked
by the ad blocker.

Hometalk loads in a few seconds in both Edge and IE. Clicking a large
picture like this:

http://www.hometalk.com/5446799/how-to-turn-a-knife-block-into-crayon-holder

opens the slide show page in a split second in IE with the ad blocker, in
Edge it takes a couple of seconds to have the side and top ads loaded.

Our WAN is 12 Mb/s only. We use the default Windows Defender - and SecureDNS
which blocks blacklisted hosts.

/gustav

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Susan Harkins
Sendt: 15. februar 2016 17:51
Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
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Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Microsoft Edge

I browse a lot to see what kind of Office content is out there. Just now,
I'm at

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/creating-a-template-in-word-2016.html

.... using Firefox, it never does load completely. I got a Flash error,
which I cleared, but it's still churning. Almost all of the sites I visit
are ad-driven and they take forever to load.

My system's new, but not particularly fast, but it should be adequate to
handle this stuff.

I don't have trouble with Facebook -- just these ad-driven sites for the
most part. I don't do any shopping or that sort of thing. Oh, here's one...
hometalk.com -- I visit that a few times a day and wow... it takes forever
to load anything there and often, I just give up and close the tab.

I'm running Vipre, but anymore that doesn't mean much.

Wireless modem's old and might be part of the problem. I've mentioned it to
the dh and I think he's researching replacements.

Susan H.


Hi Susan et al

I'm curious - what sites do you have issues with? My colleagues use IE and
Edge (and Chrome a little), and I very rarely get complains, and if I do, it
is most often malfunctioning government sites. Browsers "crashing" is so
rare that I can't recall the last time it happened.

Any examples, please?

/gustav


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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af
Susan Harkins
Sendt: 15. februar 2016 15:13
Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
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Emne: [dba-Tech] Microsoft Edge

I'd like to hear from anyone using Edge - just curious about its speed and
general behavior. I'm using FireFox on Win 10 and it freezes at least once a
day and it's getting old.

Susan H.