Edge keeps running in the Background

Hi,

please have a look at my processes... Edge under 0.5% with two major websites open.

I have no idea why you have all these things running.

I also have the same Edge version.

My Windows version is also 22H2 in Win10 ... however in Win11 its 23H2.

I would start a post asking about unusual resource usage...?

Cheers

Well the latest Edge update seems to have made things worse.

Not only do the tasks continue after closing...now there is more system CPU usage than before both when Edge is open and after it is closed.

So much usage my fan speed increases significantly after just a few seconds of opening Edge and continues to run fast long after closing edge.

When I kill Edge in task manager, 2 seconds later the fan speed drops.

Well that about does it for me.

I have switched over to Chrome.

Maybe I'll give Edge another try in a few months.

You described my symptoms very well. Ditto! That was the greatest selling feature of EDGE - that it deletes what I choose and choose Not when I close the browser. And, I fear, that Edge is STILL saving every Browsing, History, Cache and Cookies in separate 'ghost' files. It's MONEY they care about.

Microsoft Edge continues to run in the background because it provides internet services to other parts of Windows and to Microsoft Store.

This isn't hard to understand. If you wrote an operating system that depended on contacting the internet, would you be happy to let your arch rival provide those internet services? I don't think so. I think you'd want to make sure that it's your browser that you control that's providing internet services for your operating system and your app store.

That's why the back end of Microsoft Edge (the technical part, without the user interface) continues to appear in Task Manager, even when you aren't actually using the browser yourself.

For all other use of the internet - web browsing, email, social media, YouTube, etc. - you are free to use any browser, and to make that browser your default. For me, that's Google Chrome.

Hi all (DJK999, Rosco, Chien Sage) and thanks for your ideas just above.

Quick comments:

• No - I don't experience any increased CPU usage or fan speed. Actually, the whole thing has no negative effect on my machine. I actually would have not noticed at all if it wasn't for Ccleaner informing that a 'Force Close" of Edge is necessary to do a cleaning. So, it's more a question of principle and curiosity.
• Chen's statement about Edge being used for all kinds of non-browser internet usage makes a lot of sense. I think that's the reason ... all kinds of new features in windows that need internet access ... and Edge is used for that. In regard to spying on you / collecting data ... I don't see a reason to switch to Google ... as they weren't spying on us, even more so. Edge works very nicely, is super-fast and more secure than anything Google.
• Again: I eliminated Edge running in the background (at least from what I can see in Task Manager) by using "InPrivate" mode as default. And even if it still would, it has no negative effect on my machine. DJK 999's CPU issue must have another reason or a failing machine. InPrivate also eliminated the annoying gossip / sports-**** popups under the search bar.

For me there is no reason to switch to another browser - Edge is very good and integrated. And there are various tweaks in Edge Settings, Windows Settings, Services, Task Manager and Registry to keep Microsoft's increased "big brother attitude" under control.

I have a whole list available but was also posted further up.

Regardless, please keep bombarding Microsoft via Feedback Hub with your concerns.

Cheers