The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by iotku on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:55PM (#22056480)

Yeah, I threw a sizeable PDF (800MB textbook) at it and it's choking pretty hard compared to old Edge to the point where it's barely usable.

Not a deal breaker for me because I don't have a touch screen and use an external PDF reader (sumatraPDF), but if I was using edge for heavy PDFs I would be rather disappointed

Seems fine for PDFs that are a bit less extreme, but nowhere near as smooth as old edge.

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by chirau on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:02PM (#22057287)

800MB textbook??? What kind of textbook is that and how many pages does it have? Or page dimension/image resolution??? That is a very very large size for a pdf.

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by iotku on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:48PM (#22058354)

It's certainly not a typical PDF, but it's 1400 page physics textbook which seem to all be excessively large and unoptimized.

Originally it was completely uncroped, and OCRing it seems to have grown it even larger.

Not too familiar with details with PDFs but I suspect it's just a huge DPI render (maybe designed to go towards being printed) that could probably be reduced significantly if it was designed for normal consumption.

All things considered it's amazing it works at all, but old Edge handled it a lot smoother.

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by jandrese on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:42PM (#22057046)

That's a problem the Firefox PDF viewer frequently suffers from as well. Give it a big complex PDF and it can choke very hard on stuff that Acrobat reader or xpdf open in under a second.

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