Microsoft Edge Enhance Performance and Speed | Pro Tips

You can access performance settings in Edge browser at below navigation.

Click Three Dots for ‘Settings and More’ (or press Alt+F) in top right corner of Edge browser → Settings → System and performance.

Steps to Improve Performance and Speed of Microsoft Edge

Follow these steps to improve speed and performance of Microsoft Edge. → Watch Video Tutorial.

• Open Microsoft Edge, click three dots on top right then Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data. Here, Turn ON the toggle of ‘Preload pages for faster browsing and searching’ option.

• You should also turn ON ‘Preload the new tab page for a faster experience’. (Settings → Start, home, and new tabs → New tab page.)

• Click ‘System and performance’ and Turn ON the toggle button next to ‘Continue running background extensions and apps when Microsoft Edge is closed’ option.

• Turn ON the Startup Boost. It helps quickly load the start page in background.

• Turn ON the buttons, next to ‘Save resources with sleeping tabs’ and ‘Fade sleeping tabs’.

• Here, you should also Turn ON the toggle next to ‘Use hardware acceleration when available’ option. (It will enhance your productivity in resource demanding apps, opened in Edge such as Canva app.)

• If Edge is slow or often crashes, it might be due to other resource demanding programs or websites running in your computer. Therefore, try closing Photoshop, or video editing software and YouTube, when you are not using them.

• Turn on efficiency mode: I keep it turned OFF on my computer. However, if you are using a battery-operated device like a laptop, you can turn it ON.

• Remove unwanted and unused extensions in Edge. (You can access the tweak here: Click three dots … on top right corner → Extensions.)

• Click on three dots → More tools → Browser task manager. You can end process of any unused tab, eating up system resources.

• Put inactive tabs to sleep after the specified amount of time: I have set limit of 15 minutes.

• Delete cookies, cache and other data if you notice slow performance of Edge on your computer.

• Boost system memory of your device especially RAM and SSD or add a graphics card in your PC.

Preload Pages and Startup Boost in Microsoft Edge

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Startup Boost in Edge browser enhances the speed and performance of your Edge browser because Edge browser downloads or prefetches the websites in background, you are most likely to open, and quickly presents you the downloaded webpages when you actually click or request to open those links.

Edge browser downloads the webpages in advance, based on your browsing history and preferences.

Microsoft Edge browser allow the user to turn ON or OFF the preload feature. You can access it in your own browser through following settings.

Navigation Path: Click Three Dots for ‘Settings and More’ (or press Alt+F) → Settings → Cookies and Site Permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data → Preload pages for faster browsing and searching.

For faster web browsing, user should also turn ON the toggle next to ‘Preload the new tab page for a faster experience’ option. This tweak can be accessed by typing or pasting (edge://settings/startHomeNTP) link in Edge browser.

For faster page loading, based on predictive preloading in background, you can also turn ON the ‘Startup Boost’ feature in Edge browser, by entering ‘edge://settings/system’ in Edge and hitting ‘Enter’ and then toggling ON the button next to ‘Startup boost’ option.

Should You Turn ON ‘Startup Boost’ and ‘Preload Pages’ in Edge Browser?

Normally, I prefer to keep the ‘Startup Boost’ and ‘Preload Pages’ options turned ON in Edge browser for faster browsing experience.

However, please keep in mind that though limited, this feature uses memory resources (RAM, SSD or HDD) as well as internet data for preloading of webpages in background. Learn how to optimize memory usage and battery through Microsoft Edge settings.

Therefore, if you have limited data package, then you can turn it OFF.

If you experience glitches while using some heavy resource consuming applications such as Adobe Premiere Pro or FilmoraPro video editing software, you can temporarily turn OFF the ‘Startup Boost’ and ‘Preload Pages’ in Edge browser, to save system resources.

However, if you have a good internet data package and your computer has spacious RAM and SSD then I will suggest you always keep the Preload feature turned ON for faster browsing experience in Edge browser.

How to Keep a Website Activated Always in Microsoft Edge?

Edge browser has great feature of sleeping tabs to save CPU and data resources from inactive tabs.

However, we do not want some important websites to sleep after a set time. You can tell those websites to your Edge browser in settings through below navigation path.

Click Three Dots for ‘Settings and More’ (or press Alt+F) in top right corner of Edge browser → Settings → System and performance → Optimize Performance → Never put these sites to sleep.

Here you can enter URLs of websites which you want always active to get continuous notifications such as Facebook, Messenger or WhatsApp. For example, to always keep WhatsApp active in browser, enter URL of WhatsApp web (https://web.whatsapp.com/) the box after clicking ‘Add’ next to ‘Never put these sites to sleep’ option.

How to use Amazing Reading Tools in Edge Browser?

Open a webpage in Edge browser and press ‘F9’ key on the keyboard of your computer to activate Immersive Reader tool.

Edge browser will retrieve and simplify the webpage over a secure connection.

Here, you can click Read Aloud to listen the page text with your preferred voice. Click on ‘Voice Options’ where you can adjust the speed of narrating as well as select a specific voice.

In settings of Immersive Reader, you can choose text size, text spacing, or a font. You can also select a theme such as dark background.

Through built-in grammar tools, you can separate nouns, verbs etc. on a webpage. It is especially great feature for learning a language with unique experience for your kids and teens.

You can translate the webpage into any other available language. You can read comfortably by making visible only one, three, or five lines at a time.

Now press F9 key and explore yourself. You can also right-click on a webpage to activate Read Aloud tool.

To Access ‘Read aloud’ settings in Microsoft Edge mobile version, click ‘three dots’ (…) on bottom of phone screen, and select ‘Read aloud’ option and see on top of mobile screen for more options such as play/pause button, or selecting language and speed of the narrator.

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