58 TECH ADVISOR • APRIL 2020REVIEW
CPU usage is highlighted in blue, with memory usage
represented by the secondary orange line. The new Edge’s
memory usage is just fine, but it’s still a bit of a CPU hogsame window to hopefully minimize variation, but this is
a very subjective, content-dependent test. We ran the
tests without any extensions or plug-ins enabled, and
turned off the ‘Shields Up’ ad-blocker within Brave.
What we saw here was that while memory usage
was on a par with that of other browsers, there’s still
room for improvement as far as CPU utilization was
concerned. In this case, it’s probably fair to allow Edge
a little leeway as Microsoft’s developers fine-tune it.Verdict
Although Edge hadn’t quite been finalized by the
time of our review, our impression can be summed up
by one word: okay. Over time, I suspect Edge will be
defined by its convenience, and how well it worms its