Microsoft Edge: New update improves performance

Even though Microsoft likes to advertise the Edge browser as the best browser for its own Windows operating system, the software has one problem: it takes up a lot of resources for its performance. But that is now changing, at least in part, thanks to an update to version 102 that the developers have just released.

Disk cache compression not available for all users

Because a change to the memory system of the Edge browser ensures that the software’s hunger for performance is reduced: in the future, the browser will use the drive cache to make loading websites more resource-efficient than before. To do this, the browser stores the data from websites that users visit more frequently in the drive cache so that they can be retrieved directly from the cache memory the next time the page is called up.

As a result, the website in question not only loads faster, but the browser also uses fewer resources, which has a positive effect on the performance of the entire PC system – after all, the Edge browser’s hunger for resources is then no longer at the expense of the entire setup. Edge also compresses the cache to reduce the browser’s memory footprint.

However, the new Microsoft Edge cache feature is not available to all users. According to the developers, the software first carries out a hardware check to check whether the respective system is suitable for cache compression. The check is intended to ensure that the new cache feature can be used to advantage for all users. After all, the cache is initially only available under Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11 in favor of improving performance. If you want to use the browser under Mac OS and Linux, you have to do without the innovation.

Source: Windows latest