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Top 10 Best Edge Flags to Enhance the Browser’s Performance
These are still experimental features and might not work properly
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Updated onAugust 14, 2024
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If you’re looking to boost your Microsoft Edge browser’s performance, enabling specific Edge flags can make a significant difference. These experimental features can enhance speed, responsiveness, and overall browsing experience. To enable Edge flags just type or pasteedge://flagsin the address bar and hitEnter.
What are the best Edge flags to enhance performance?
1. Enable experimental JavaScript
This flag can help your browser process JavaScript-heavy websites more efficiently, reducing load times and improving responsiveness.
2. Enable Future V8 VM Features
Enabling this flag allows Edge to use the latest JavaScript engine optimizations, which can significantly speed up web applications.
3. Enable Parallel downloading
This flag is particularly useful for users who frequently download large files, as it can significantly reduce download times.
4. Enable GPU Rasterization
By shifting rasterization tasks from the CPU to the GPU, this flag can improve the speed and smoothness of web page rendering.
5. Enable WebAssembly Tiering
WebAssembly is used by many advanced web apps, and enabling these flags can lead to a noticeable improvement in their performance.
6. Enable VP8 Hardware Acceleration
This flag can improve video playback performance, especially for video streaming services that use the VP8 codec.
7. Enable ANGLE Graphics Backend
This flag can improve the rendering speed of web pages, especially on systems with powerful GPUs.
8. Enable Smooth scrolling
This flag enhances the scrolling experience, making it feel more fluid and less choppy, especially on high-refresh-rate displays.
9. Enable Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents
This flag ensures a consistent dark mode experience across all websites, reducing eye strain during nighttime browsing.
10. Enable Heavy Ad Privacy Mitigations
Enabling this flag can reduce the impact of resource-heavy ads on your browsing performance, leading to a smoother and faster experience.
By tweaking these Edge flags, you can significantly enhance your browsing experience. Of course, you can still reverse these settings by using the same method or by hitting theReset allbutton inedge://flags.
To learn more, don’t miss our guide on how touse edge://flagspage for more useful information.
Remember to keep your browser updated to benefit from the latest performance improvements and security patches. Let’s hear about your questions or suggestions in the comments below.
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Claudiu Andone
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His abrupt interest in computers started when he saw the first Home Computer as a kid. However, his passion for Windows and everything related became obvious when he became a sys admin in a computer science high school.
With 14 years of experience in writing about everything there is to know about science and technology, Claudiu also likes rock music, chilling in the garden, and Star Wars. May the force be with you, always!
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Oldtimer in the tech and science press, with 14 years of experience in writing on everything there is to know about science, technology, and Microsoft
