Windows 10: Amp up your performance with Startup boost in Microsoft Edge

Brink · Mar 4, 2021

Iâm excited that youâre here to learn about what weâve been doing to further improve Microsoft Edge and Bing! In my last post we announced our new sleeping tabs feature and Iâm happy to share initial findings from our latest Beta build that a sleeping tab increases battery life by using 26% less CPU on average compared to a non-sleeping tab, and also reduces memory usage by 16% on average. This is great news for all you gamers and tab-hoarders out there! More exciting things are in the works for you later this year.

Last month we also announced beautiful new themes for Microsoft Edge and I love to hear that Halo, Satin Stacks and Wandering Fields are the top fan favorites. This month weâre excited to start to apply our modern design principles to Microsoft Bing with new experiences that are visually immersive, and which help you find the information you are looking for faster.

For those who already have Microsoft Edge installed, launch it and check it out. If youâre on a Mac or mobile device download it and let us know what you think!

Without further ado, hereâs whatâs new in Microsoft Edge and Bing this month.

Make the most of your time online

Move your tabs to the side with vertical tabs in Microsoft Edge

Iâll admit it, Iâm a tab hoarder. I like to have several tabs open at once to keep the right information at my fingertips. News sites, work reports, metrics dashboards, marketing plans â all of these help me stay on top of my life and work, but at some point I have so many open that it becomes hard to find the tab I need. To make tab management and organization easier, vertical tabs is now generally available this month. Now everyone can view and manage their tabs from a pane on the side with a single click. This allows you to clearly see the tab titles and controls, making it easier to find and switch between the tabs you need, regardless of how many you have open. Pair this with sleeping tabs and you get a browser built for more performance at lower power! To get started, click on the vertical tabs icon in the upper left corner of your browser frame. Read more about how our teams created vertical tabs and get a behind-the-scenes look into the user research and design that inspired features like vertical tabs and tracking prevention.

Get an easier way to view and manage your history in Microsoft Edge

Weâve heard feedback that many of you are missing the Hub experience from our legacy version of Microsoft Edge. Hub allowed you to view and manage your favorites, history and more directly from a pane on the side. This month, weâre excited to bring a more efficient way for you to quickly access and manage your history without losing context of the page youâre on. Now when you go to history, it will open as a lightweight dropdown from the toolbar instead of opening the full page view in settings. This means that you can easily search, open and manage your history without navigating away. If you want it to stay open, you can pin it to the side. Go to ââ¦â and select History or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + H to try it out.

Find information fast with new modern Microsoft Bing experiences

At Microsoft Bing weâre looking for ways to give you back time so you can focus on the things that really matter. Weâre also looking for ways to move thoughtfully beyond a list of links, to a world of search results that seamlessly combine information with visually rich imagery in a single beautiful view.

With that in mind, weâre excited to announce several new search experiences that quickly deliver information in a way thatâs intuitive and engaging. The result is a visually rich format that allows you to quickly find what you are looking for without having to sift through large blocks of text. These new features are just the beginning as we look to evolve the search experience across all of Microsoft Bing!

Get inspired with intuitive, interactive Bing search results

One of our goals is to deliver a search experience that moves beyond a static set of results. One way weâre doing so is by updating our search result pages so that they adapt to intuitively highlight the content youâre engaging with as you go.

For instance, with more people cooking from home, weâve heard many mention that they are overwhelmed by the sheer amount of recipe options online, and frustrated by recipes hidden below long introductions and ads. To help with that, weâve released an updated recipes experience that extracts and aggregates the most relevant recipes content and presents it in a single view on the search results page.

This view shows recipe pictures along with high-level information like calories per serving and user reviews. If a recipe includes a how-to video, weâll show that as part of the answer, and it will play if you hover over it. Seamlessly click from one recipe to the next and see them expand inline so you donât have to bounce from page to page. The expanded view shows more information such as: an ingredient list and possible substitutions for when you donât have everything on hand, a drop-down menu for you to scale the recipe to a certain number of servings, and nutritional information. You can see this feature for yourself with queries like âfish tacos recipesâ or âeasy mac and cheese recipesâ to see how it can help you quickly decide on a recipe and get right to cooking.

We applied similar principles to search results for those looking to catch up on home improvement or for creative projects to do with their kids. Search for things like âDIY coffee tableâ and âvegetable garden ideas,â and youâll get a rich view of results that can serve as a starting point for your inspiration. From there you can click an idea that catches your eye to visit its home site for more details, save it for later, or find other similar suggestions or ideas!

While exploring these visual results, you might see something you like but thatâs difficult to describe with words. Thatâs why weâve also integrated visual search into the experience, so you can quickly search using an image. For example, in the âDIY coffee tableâ result, you may see wicker baskets that fit the tableâs look and feel. With just a click, youâll get image results of similar-looking items, and can directly click off to retailer sites to purchase a particular basket if youâre sold on it.

Weâve also made a few updates to our carousel experiences, with intuitive hover-over experiences that can help you, for example, quickly organize your book or movie lists. To see it in action, search for things like âchef documentariesâ or âspace books,â and youâll get a rich carousel of answers that showcases just the resultsâ high-level information to avoid crowding the page. If you decide you want to learn more about a specific result, hover over it, and Microsoft Bing will then expand the result with more detailed information.

Quickly get informed with infographic-inspired experiences

Another part of our vision for modern search is to thoughtfully aggregate information for more detailed topics, and to design the page in such a way that you can quickly find what youâre looking for. Our goal is to provide both style AND substance.

For example, you can search for broad topics like âKenyaâ or âgiraffes.â Results for these move beyond a dense summary of text results and blue links, and aggregate the top text and visual results into an infographic-inspired experience (you can see the updated experience alongside the previous experience above). Curiosity piqued? Click off to sites that contain more detail or explore other related topics.

Another feature that showcases this design approach is our local answers, which can help if, for example, youâre trying to stay close to home and want to be a tourist in your own hometown. Search for things like âthings to do in Seattleâ or âEiffel Tower,â and youâll get aggregated information from a variety of sources. Instead of just a single carousel of images, or just a text summary of one aspect of what youâve searched for, you will now see a comprehensive overview of the topic â inclusive of Bing Maps, top images, visitor reviews and more â so in a single view you can learn more about the area and focus on whatever is of interest to you. This experience is flighting and will be fully available in the U.S. in coming weeks.

Weâve applied similar principles to more list-centric queries like âbest rivers to visitâ or âmost interesting volcanoes.â Instead of getting just a text result, or information on a single answer, you get an explorable overview of relevant image-led content.

We hope youâre as excited about these new experiences as we are! Stay tuned in the coming months for more visually immersive experiences across the product. As always, you can provide feedback by clicking the feedback button on the lower right corner of the results page.

Startup boost makes your browser start up to 41% faster

When working and browsing online, speed matters. Startup boost maximizes your computerâs performance by significantly reducing the time it takes to open the browser after a device reboot or reopening the browser. This new feature rolling out this month powers faster browser launches after you reboot your device and when relaunching Microsoft Edge. Initial tests show startup times improve from 29% â 41% percent with this feature. Startup boost will be automatically enabled this month and you can access your browser settings menu to personalize Microsoft Edge even more.

Thanks again for your help making Microsoft Edge better than ever with your ongoing suggestions and feedback. We hope you love Microsoft Edge and we canât wait to share whatâs coming next!
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hurricane51 · Mar 4, 2021

Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region

I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.

Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.

Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

Go to Settings.

Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.

Select add someone else on this PC.

Enter a user name and hit next.

Click on Finish.

Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.

Ffej150 · Mar 4, 2021

Performance issues related to Microsoft Edge

Yes, I meant Microsoft Edge will not open after todays update. I tried every step and procedure you listed above, but none of them resolved the issue. Update history reports the update was installed successfully. I could not perform method 2 listed above
as Edge will not open. it appears for approximately 2 seconds with its blue start page, then disappears.

Arul_D · Mar 4, 2021

How to run Microsoft Edge automatically at startup

Hi Jimmill,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I understand that you would like to run Microsoft Edge automatically after the boot. We will assist you to resolve the issue.

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps.

PressWindows key + R from Desktop.

Type shell:startup and press
ok.

The Startup folder for the logged in user account will now appear.

Drag and drop the programs that you wish to run automatically at boot add their shortcuts to the Startup.

Restart the computer.

Hope the information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

Thank you.

Windows 10: Amp up your performance with Startup boost in Microsoft Edge

Amp up your performance with Startup boost in Microsoft Edge

Amp up your performance with Startup boost in Microsoft Edge

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