More Edge features get a performance boost

Microsoft Edge is racing into the new year with faster and more responsive features than ever before.

Starting with Microsoft Edge 132, many of the browser’s most important features, such as Downloads, Drop, History, and the inPrivate new tab experience are now a lot faster.

In fact, no less than 14 different areas of the user interface throughout the browser are now 40% faster than before, on average. (This includes Favorites and Browser Essentials, which we had already mentioned in our earlier blog post: An even faster Microsoft Edge.)

These improvements are all made possible thanks to our effort to migrate the browser UI to WebUI 2.0, our markup-first architecture that minimizes the size of our code bundles, and the amount of JavaScript code that runs during the initialization of the UI.

As an example, the following video shows the improved Downloads UI experience:

We hope you like these responsiveness improvements. And we aren’t done yet! Over the coming months we will continue shipping improvements to even more features of the browser, including to print preview, read aloud, settings, and more.

We’d love you to try Microsoft Edge and let us know what you think. Tell us about your experience by sending feedback directly from Edge: go to Settings and more (…) > Help and feedback > Send feedback.