Searching in address bar of Edge sometimes takes forever

I'm using the Google search engine in the Edge Chromium's address bar to quickly search for terms through Google and I'm not sure what triggers this issue.

When searching for terms in the address bar, it sometimes randomly can not load the Google page results. A loading icon is shown forever and nothing is happening. When going to the Google website itself and search for the terms there instead it works just fine just as it works fine when going to any website for that matter. So I can't imagine this is a network connection problem.

Using 25H2 with Edge Chromium version 152.0.4191.53

Is anyone else having this issue?

To fix slow Google searches in Microsoft Edge, clear your browser's cache and cookies or disable conflicting extensions.

Toggle Hardware Acceleration: Go to Settings > System and performance, turn off Use graphics acceleration when available, and restart the browser.

Disable VPN or proxy connections.

I block DNS in Windows (UDP via port 53) and as the result I get 5-10 secs lag every 5 mins, I reported it years ago, no fix.
It happened in all Chromium browsers, but they fixed it, but MS refuses to accept the bug, just like defragmenting SSD.

TairikuOkami said:

I block DNS in Windows (UDP via port 53) and as the result I get 5-10 secs lag every 5 mins, I reported it years ago, no fix.
It happened in all Chromium browsers, but they fixed it, but MS refuses to accept the bug, just like defragmenting SSD.

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I haven't blocked DNS in Windows, but I can imagine this being a very annoying issue for such a long period of time.

FreeBooter said:

To fix slow Google searches in Microsoft Edge, clear your browser's cache and cookies or disable conflicting extensions.

Toggle Hardware Acceleration: Go to Settings > System and performance, turn off Use graphics acceleration when available, and restart the browser.

Disable VPN or proxy connections.

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I don't use any extensions. Will try clearing the cache and cookies. Hopefully this helps. It's peculiar only Edge's address bar exhibits this issue though.

JohnnyGui said:

Is anyone else having this issue?

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I have had similar issues with Edge+Google and solved by doing this:

• Go to edge://flags and search for "Device Bound Session Credentials (Standard)".
• Set this flag to Disable and you should be good.

Try it and report back!

2112 said:

I have had similar issues with Edge+Google and solved by doing this:

• Go to edge://flags and search for "Device Bound Session Credentials (Standard)".
• Set this flag to Disable and you should be good.

Try it and report back!

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Thanks but isn't this a security risk?

JohnnyGui said:

Thanks but isn't this a security risk?

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I don´t really know how much of security risk it is, or when/how it can be. It seems that it can be from what i have read but knows no more than that.

Try it for a couple of minutes to see if it solves the issue you have. For me more or less all Google related things had issues that this solved.

Reinstall Edge:


1) Open PowerShell as an admin
2) Paste the following in there, all as one line, and press Enter:

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" -Verbose}

3) Restart the computer