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Learn how to use Microsoft Edge and DevTools to find memory issues that affect page performance, including memory leaks, memory bloat, and frequent garbage collections.

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Summary

  • Find out how much memory your page is currently using with the Microsoft Edge Browser Task Manager.
  • Visualize memory usage over time with the Memory panel.
  • Identify detached DOM trees (a common cause of memory leaks) with Heap snapshot.
  • Find out when new memory is being allocated in your JavaScript heap (JS heap) with Allocation instrumentation on timeline.

Overview

In the spirit of the RAIL performance model, the focus of your performance efforts should be your users.

Memory issues are important because they are often perceivable by users. Users may perceive memory issues in the followingways:

  • The performance of a page gets progressively worse over time. This is possibly a symptom of a memory leak. A memory leak is when a bug in the page causes the page to progressively use more and more memory over time.
  • The performance of a page is consistently bad. This is possibly a symptom of memory bloat. Memory bloat is when a page uses more memory than is necessary for optimal page speed.
  • The performance of a page is delayed or appears to pause frequently. This is possibly a symptom of frequent garbage collections. Garbage collection is when the browser reclaims memory. The browser decides when this happens. During collections, all script running is paused. So if the browser is garbage collecting a lot, script runtime is going to get paused a lot.

Memory bloat: how much is 'too much'?

A memory leak is easy to define. If a site is progressively using more and more memory, then you have a leak. But memory bloat is a bit harder to pin down. What qualifies as 'using too much memory'?

There are no hard numbers here, because different devices and browsers have different capabilities. The same page thatruns smoothly on a high-end smartphone may crash on a low-end smartphone.

The key here is to use the RAIL model and focus on your users. Find out what devices are popular with your users, and then test out your page on those devices. If the experience is consistently bad, the page may be exceeding the memory capabilities of those devices.

Monitor memory use in realtime with the Microsoft Edge Browser Task Manager

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Use the Microsoft Edge Browser Task Manager as a starting point to your memory issue investigation. The Microsoft Edge Browser Task Manager is a realtime monitor that tells you how much memory a page is currently using.

  1. Select Shift+Esc or navigate to the Microsoft Edge main menu and choose More tools > Browser Task Manager to open the Microsoft Edge Browser Task Manager.

  2. Hover on the table header of the Microsoft Edge Browser Task Manager, open the contextual menu (right-click), and enable JavaScript memory.

These two columns tell you different things about how your page is using memory.

  • The Memory column represents native memory. DOM nodes are stored in native memory. If this value is increasing, DOM nodes are getting created.
  • The JavaScript Memory column represents the JS heap. This column contains two values. The value you are interested in is the live number (the number in parentheses). The live number represents how much memory the reachable objects on your page are using. If this number is increasing, either new objects are being created, or the existing objects are growing.

Visualize memory leaks with Performance panel

You may also use the Performance panel as another starting point in your investigation. The Performance panel helps you visualize the memory use of a page over time.

  1. Open the Performance panel on DevTools.
  2. Enable the Memory checkbox.
  3. Make a recording.

Tip

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It is a good practice to start and end your recording with a forced garbage collection. To force garbage collection, choose the collect garbage button while recording.

To demonstrate memory recordings, consider the code below:

Every time that the button referenced in the code is chosen, ten thousand div nodes are appended to the document body, and a string of one million x characters is pushed onto the x array. Running the previous code sample produces a recording in the Performance panel like the following figure.

First, an explanation of the user interface. The HEAP graph in the Overview pane (below NET) represents the JS heap. Below the Overview pane is the Counter pane. The memory usage is broken down by JS heap (same as HEAP graph in the Overview pane), documents, DOM nodes, listeners, and GPU memory. Turn off a checkbox to hide it from the graph.

Now, an analysis of the code compared with the previous figure. If you review the node counter (the green graph), it matches up cleanly with the code. The node count increases in discrete steps. You may presume that each increase in the node count is a call to grow(). The JS heap graph (the blue graph) is not as straightforward. In keeping with best practices, the first dip is actually a forced garbage collection (choose the collect garbage button). As the recording progresses, the JS heap size spikes are displayed. This is natural and expected: the JavaScript code is creating the DOM nodes on every button you choose and doing a lot of work when it creates the string of one million characters. The key thing here is the fact that the JS heap ends higher than it began (the 'beginning' here being the point after the forced garbage collection). In the real world, if you saw this pattern of increasing JS heap size or node size, it may potentially define a memory leak.

Discover detached DOM tree memory leaks with Heap Snapshots

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A DOM node is only garbage collected when there are no references to the node from either the DOM tree or JavaScript code running on the page. A node is said to be 'detached' when it is removed from the DOM tree but some JavaScript still references it. Detached DOM nodes are a common cause of memory leaks. This section teaches you how to use the heap profilers in DevTools to identify detached nodes.

Here is a simple example of detached DOM nodes.

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Choosing the button referenced in the code creates a ul node with ten li children. The nodes are referenced by the code but do not exist in the DOM tree, so each is detached.

Heap snapshots are one way to identify detached nodes. As the name implies, heap snapshots show you how memory is distributed among the JS objects and DOM nodes for your page at the point of time of the snapshot.

To create a snapshot, open DevTools and navigate to the Memory panel, choose the Heap snapshot radio button > Take snapshot button.

The snapshot may take some time to process and load. After it is finished, select it from the left-hand panel (named HEAP SNAPSHOTS).

Type Detached in the Class filter textbox to search for detached DOM trees.

Expand the carats to investigate a detached tree.

Choose a node to investigate it further. In the Objects pane, you may review more information about the code that is referencing it. For example, in the following figure, the detachedNodes variable is referencing the node. To fix the particular memory leak, you should study the code that uses the detachedUNode variable and ensure that the reference to the node is removed when it is no longer needed.

Identify JS heap memory leaks with Allocation instrumentation on timeline

Allocation instrumentation on timeline is another tool that may help you track down memory leaks in your JS heap.

Demonstrate Allocation instrumentation on timeline using the following code.

Every time that the button referenced in the code is pushed, a string of one million characters is added to the x array.

To record an Allocation instrumentation on timeline, open DevTools, navigate to the Memory panel, choose the Allocation instrumentation on timeline radio button, choose the Start button, perform the action that you suspect is causing the memory leak, and then choose the Stop recording heap profile button when you are done.

As you are recording, notice if any blue bars show up on the Allocation instrumentation on timeline, like in the following figure.

Those blue bars represent new memory allocations. Those new memory allocations are your candidates for memory leaks. You are able to zoom on a bar to filter the Constructor pane to only show objects that were allocated during the specified timeframe.

Expand the object and select the value to view more details in the Object pane. For example, in the following figure, in the details of the newly allocated object indicates that it was allocated to the x variable in the Window scope.

Investigate memory allocation by function

Use the Allocation sampling profiling type to view memory allocation by JavaScript function.

  1. Choose the Allocation sampling radio button. If there is a worker on the page, you are able to select that as the profiling target using the dropdown menu next to the Start button.
  2. Choose the Start button.
  3. Complete the actions on the webpage which you want to investigate.
  4. Choose the Stop button when you have finished all of your actions.

DevTools shows you a breakdown of memory allocation by function. The default view is Heavy (Bottom Up), which displays the functions that allocated the most memory at the top.

Spot frequent garbage collections

If your page appears to pause frequently, then you may have garbage collection issues.

You are able to use either the Microsoft Edge Browser Task Manager or Performance memory recordings to spot frequent garbage collection. In the Microsoft Edge Browser Task Manager, frequently rising and falling Memory or JavaScript Memory values represent frequent garbage collection. In Performance recordings, frequent changes (rising and falling) to the JS heap or node count graphs indicate frequent garbage collection.

After you have identified the problem, you are able to use an Allocation instrumentation on timeline recording to find out where memory is being allocated and which functions are causing the allocations.

Getting in touch with the Microsoft Edge DevTools team

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Use the following options to discuss the new features and changes in the post, or anything else related to DevTools.

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Note

Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The original page is found here and is authored by Kayce Basques (Technical Writer, Chrome DevTools & Lighthouse).


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Edge

Today, Microsoft released Edge Dev build 81.0.410.1, and as usual, the changes are pretty minor. The one thing that's notable is that it has support for Dolby Vision HDR, which means that not only can you use the browser to stream content in 4K UHD, but it'll be able to support a wider dynamic range of colors.

Another new feature, which the company actually announced yesterday, is support for more languages in DevTools. Here's the full list of new features:

  • Added a keyboard shortcut to enter Immersive Reader mode.
  • Enabled support for cards saved in MSPay to be used in webpages.
  • Enabled Dolby Vision support for capable devices.
  • Added support on Mac for reading PDFs protected with Microsoft Information Protection (MIP).
  • Added a limit to the amount of text that can be added to an item in a Collection. Note that we are still measuring this limit and may adjust it in the future.

Here are the fixes for improved reliability:

  • Fixed a crash on startup when sync is enabled.
  • Fixed an issue where certain websites crash upon load.
  • Fixed a crash when starting a download.
  • Fixed a crash when manually importing data from other browsers.
  • Fixed a crash when searching for text on a webpage.
  • Fixed an issue where deleted favorites sometimes re-appear when another device tries to sync.
  • Fixed an issue where enabling Application Guard causes high CPU usage when idle.
  • Fixed an issue on Mac where enabling SmartScreen causes high CPU usage when idle.
  • Fixed an issue where there is sometimes a delay when opening a new window before anything loads.
  • Fixed an issue where webpages that use the Windows credential prompt for logging in crash the browser when showing the prompt.
  • Fixed an issue where websites installed as apps sometimes don’t open.
  • Fixed a browser crash when closing the Collections pane.
  • Fixed an issue where opening the Collections pane sometimes causes a browser crash.
  • Fixed a crash when navigating to certain websites for Collections users.
  • Fixed an issue where syncing a Collection sometimes crashes the Collections pane.
  • Fixed a crash when closing the browser.
  • Fixed a crash when closing the browser for users of extensions.
  • Fixed an issue where disabling Internet Explorer in Windows and then attempting to use IE mode causes a browser crash.
  • Fixed an issue where websites sometimes don’t load in Application Guard windows after updating Edge.
  • Improved the reliability of syncing favorites with long names.
  • Fixed an issue where Collections that are created while sync is off don’t get synced once sync is turned back on.
  • Fixed an issue where certain encrypted PDFs can’t be opened.

This is the list of changed behavior:

  • Fixed an issue where the trackpad gesture to scroll is sometimes interpreted as a right-click on certain devices. Note that this fix comes with the tradeoff of sometimes dropping the gesture to right-click (which is a two-finger tap by default), which will be fixed in the future.
  • Fixed an issue where Edge’s update progress reporting in Settings isn’t accurate.
  • Fixed an issue where swapping between the News and Office New Tab Page contents also resets the layout.
  • Fixed an issue during the first run experience where clicking cancel when customizing which data types to sync results in those data types still being selected for sync.
  • Improved messaging on the Sync Settings page for when a particular data type is disabled server-side even though sync in general is enabled and functional.
  • Fixed an issue where the autoImportAtFirstRun management policy stopped working.
  • Fixed an issue where certain data types sometimes aren’t imported from another browser properly.
  • Fixed an issue where websites that are pinned using the Pinning Wizard aren’t pinned properly.
  • Fixed an issue where clicking certain links in PDFs does nothing.
  • Fixed an issue where attempting to scroll a webpage by very large amounts sometimes fails.
  • Fixed an issue where scrolling on a webpage sometimes causes pages to jump to the beginning or end instead of scrolling the expected amount.
  • Fixed an issue where the identity button has an incorrectly-colored background.
  • Fixed an issue on Mac where the Translate icon sometimes is not seen in the address bar when it should be.
  • Fixed an issue where dragging images into a Collection from certain websites fails.
  • Fixed an issue where adding a page to a Collection sometimes results in the wrong image being used.
  • Fixed an issue where data and images from certain websites aren’t properly added to Collections.
  • Fixed an issue where attempting to close a window after downloading a file in an IE mode tab sometimes results in a warning not to close the window due to an in-progress download even though the download already completed.

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Finally, these are the known issues:

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  • The dialog to install a website as an app sometimes doesn’t appear. In those cases, interacting with the address bar or navigating in the same tab will sometimes bring it up.
  • Users of certain security software packages will see all tabs fail to load with the error STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION. The only way to prevent this behavior is to uninstall that software. We’re currently engaging with the developers of that software to try to find a fix.
  • After an initial fix for it recently, some users are still experiencing Edge windows becoming all black. UI popups like menus are not affected and opening the Browser Task Manager (keyboard shortcut is shift + esc) and killing the GPU process fixes it. Note that some of these fixes don’t yet exist in the Stable channel, and the issue only appears to affect users with certain hardware.
  • There are some issues where users with multiple audio output devices sometimes don’t get any sound from Edge. In one case, Edge becomes muted in the Windows Volume Mixer and unmuting it fixes it. In another, restarting the browser fixes it.
  • At certain zoom levels, there is a noticeable line between the browser UI and the web contents.

What Is Microsoft Edge All About

As you can see, there's actually quite a bit that's new, even if it's not chock full of new front-facing features. If you're running Edge Dev, this update will be installed automatically, or you can install it manually by going to the About Microsoft Edge section in Settings.

If you're on the Canary branch, then you have all of the new features already. Edge Beta is still on version 80, and it will be a few weeks until it gets Edge 81, since Beta is only updated every six weeks.