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Microsoft Edge Now Displays Website Content Faster

Microsoft Edge, the web browser that replaced Internet Explorer as Microsoft's official web browser, has gone through many changes before it became a product that is comparable to other browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.Recently, Microsoft said that the web browser has been updated again to allow it to display websites at a faster rate. Through their latest post, the developers at Microsoft have observed that users will typically only wait 300-400ms (milliseconds) for the content of a website to be displayed before they will feel dissatisfied.Microsoft EdgeThis content display estimate, called First Contentful Paint (FCP), shows how long it takes for media or small content to be displayed on the screen when the content rendering in the web browser is taking place.Another metric is Large Contentful Paint (LCP) which looks at how long "large" content such as the background will be displayed when a website is being downloaded to the screen. Both FCP and LCP were introduced by Google as metrics to see how fast their Google Chrome web browser can display certain content.It is not surprising that Microsoft also uses this FCP standard because technically, Microsoft Edge is built using the same Chromium framework used to build the Google Chrome web browser.With this, Microsoft says that with the latest update to the Microsoft Edge web browser, they have found that they have managed to ensure that FCP content loads on the web browser in less than 300ms.When compared to the previous Edge update, Microsoft says that it can now display FCP content at a rate of 40 percent faster and is now faster in displaying 13 features of the web browser, such as opening the settings menu, showing content in split-screen mode and being more efficient in displaying work content over the web.