To update and install the latest Microsoft Edge browser, you can click on the Edge menu, select Help and Feedback, and then About Microsoft Edge.Īt this screen, Microsoft Edge will automatically check for the new update and install it. The Recovery folder also comes into play when the browser crashes and needs to restore the last visited pages after recovery. We can now browse YouTube, watch videos, and read comments without the processes getting too large and crashing in our tests. On Friday, Microsoft released Microsoft Edge 90.0.818.62 to the Stable branch and fixed the YouTube problem. I'm not entirely sure when that will be, but I will follow up with you once I know. Continue running background apps after Microsoft Edge closes. The Canary fix I mentioned helped a lot of people, but not everyone, and there's an upstream fix coming in soon. If you enable this policy Microsoft Edge treats PDF files as downloads and lets users open. I can also say that if you are still experiencing this, we're still working on getting it sorted out. 'It is indeed video related, I can confirm that much. In BleepingComputer's tests, YouTube no longer froze when using Edge Canary, while other users reported that the bugs continued to happen.Ī Microsoft Edge engineer posted to a Reddit thread that their fix has helped many people, but not everyone, and that they are still working on a complete fix.

Users who experienced this issue noticed that one of their Microsoft Edge processes would begin to use gigabytes of memory, which eventually led it to crash.Īt the time, Microsoft acknowledged the issue in numerous Reddit discussions and asked users to try Microsoft Edge Canary to test a fix that they were working on.

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