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?

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.

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.

> 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.

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?