This is for the next unfortunate soul who might be in my boat. It was caused by SentinelOne extension for Chrome & Edge. Disabled and removed it... no more problem
I'm experiencing a weird issue with Edge and I think it might have something to do with Webview2. Occasionally, when I go to a web page, the browser just hangs loading it. I was watching the processing of the page using Devtools and noticed that it hangs on a .js script for up to 30 seconds...