Edge Workspaces bugs

Question

Hello
First of all, I think that Workspaces in Edge is a very useful feature! Edge also has vertical tabs, which makes it the best tool for researchers using hundreds of tabs. I think other browsers can learn from this. With Workspaces, I can move windows I don’t currently use aside and open them again when needed without loading to RAM. Other browsers lack this feature, so I moved to Edge from Chrome. Edge is now my main tool for ongoing online research.

However, after some months of use, I see that there are bugs that make me frustrated. With Workspaces, Edge is slow, it freezes, fails to synchronize, and reverts changes.

It does not update tabs and moves new tabs to the end.

Let’s say that I have opened tabs: New Tab, facebook.com, A, B, C, D, E

Later, I open links in new tabs from New Tab, Facebook, and A and leave them open. The tabs are: New Tab, msn.com/F, facebook.com, G, A, A2, B, C, D, E

After some time, Workspaces synchronize, there is a short or longer Edge freeze. Then I see tabs are reorganized and F, G, H moved and changed addresses. The tabs are now: New Tab, facebook.com, A, B, C, D, E, New Tab, l.facebook.com/l.php?u=G, A2

It looks like Workspaces never update opened tabs when there was redirection through New Tab or l.facebook.com/l.php?u= or any other redirection on other websites. It only stores the first address it sees. When I refresh these tabs to see the description and go to the proper addresses, it still reverts it back! After I organize the order properly, it sometimes stays or is reverted back! This is frustrating when you need order and proper descriptions!

It is terribly slow, especially after opening another Workspace.

I also encountered long freezes of Edge when opening another Workspace window or at random, probably when it synchronizes (a red dot appears next to the workspace name). Sometimes I have to wait 5 minutes, sometimes 15 minutes, sometimes I’m losing patience! I have plenty of PC power (12-core Ryzen 3900X, 32GB RAM, Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB) and when I check Process Hacker, I see that Edge isn’t using 100% of CPU, but still is frozen. I noticed that when it’s frozen, there are around 200 disk writes, fast changing, 9MB/s total:
C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Sync Data\LevelDB\256443.ldb ... ( edge workspace disk writes )

When LevelDB writes stop, Edge is unfrozen.

I’ve given msedge.exe processes high priority, but it doesn’t solve anything.

These problems make me feel that Edge Workspaces are still in the beta phase, really not reliable at the moment. I hope that my information will be valuable to further develop the Edge browser.

Answer 1

My apologies on this experience that you have encountered and in this case it will be best to also send a feedback to the team that is working on Edge and hopefully a fix will be applied soon on the next update and you can provide a feedback from the browser itself by clicking on the 3 dots > Help and feedback > Send feedback and since you also tested this on Beta then you can also provide a feedback via the link below as this is very valuable and this will be benefit other users once this has been completely fixed.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussi...

Answer 2

I use Stable and Beta (to have two separate profiles) on PC and laptop. The consistent unreliability suggests there may be unresolved bugs present in each version.

It's possible that developers only tested Workspaces with a limited number of tabs and not with power users like myself, who manage 10 workspaces with 200-600 tabs in each.

Answer 3

Please try to download and install a different build like Beta or Dev to check and test if it will still be the same.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/business/d... (Scroll a bit at the middle of the page and look for Looking for an older version of Edge? and from there you will be able to select the channel/version, build and the platform for the download)

Answer 4

I noticed this on previous versions starting from 122. I waited hoping it will be solved, but nothing changed.

Answer 5

Good day Arti, thanks for your question. I am glad to be able to provide assistance to you today. Sorry to know about this in-app experience. Just to check, did this issue just started recently or you have already noticed this on previous version/s of MS Edge?

Regards,

Paul R.