I have this strange hypocritical mental model which simultaneously dismisses improvements to Edge as irrelevant while also wishing and rooting for more browser competition elsewhere.

Exciting - the article implies it came from a collection of improvements. Best of all they’re claiming the improvement is observed across platforms!

2 questions the article didn’t address:

1. What were the changes, and what was each one’s contribution to the total?

2. How much - if any - of this improvement be observed in other Chromium browsers?

One good thing the EU mandated recently is that you can uninstall Edge. On my gaming PC, I installed LibreWolf from the Microsoft store instead.

Any perf improvement is great but the way they promote it seems a bit much?

1.7% faster navigation times 2% faster startup times 5% to 7% improvement in web page responsiveness

I'd say in practice a 2% faster startup time is probably barely noticeable?

> These results come from our field telemetry, which represent real-world web usage on all types of hardware and websites.

I wonder what the speedup would be without field telemetry. Also what is the electrical consumption for all the telemetry-related packets hopping around the internet? What would the speedup be like for the internet itself if we stopped using telemetry on everything.