Opera and Edge browsers very slow to load and operate.

TELLIT01

I mainly use Firefox but had a problem accessing one site.  I tried to use Edge but that took several minutes to load and then several more to open any site, not just the one I had problems with on Firefox.  Similar with Opera.  Firefox loads and runs fast.  Any thoughts on possible cause and solutions?

grumpycrab

using a solid state drive or old hard drive? (or, how old is your computer)

TELLIT01

It's a Dell Inspiron from 2017, 1 Tb HDD with only about 20% of space used.  8gig RAM. Windows 10 64 bit.  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz   2.70 GHz

km1500

for me, Opera is very slow  Edge pretty quick (faster than Chrome)

grumpycrab

TELLIT01 said:... Edge took several minutes to load and then several more to open any site.  Similar with Opera.  Firefox loads and runs fast.

I asked about age of computer because it may indicate a disk problem.  IE problem with disk where Edge and Opera installed but not Firefox.   How long does the computer take to startup? (from shutdown).  Does c: -> properties -> Tools -> Check run ok?
Or its just a temporary issue.  Guess you've tried uninstall, download again, install again...

TELLIT01

Edge has always been extremely slow.  I've uninstalled Opera because it set itself as default browser and it was taking far too long to get into the settings to change it.  Computer takes a couple of minutes to startup, always has done.

J_B

TELLIT01 said:

  Computer takes a couple of minutes to startup, always has done.

Sounds like you ought to fit an SSD

Jenni_D

FWIW I have Chrome, Edge and Opera installed (not Firefox) and they all seem to run equally quickly. (Yes, I have an SSD drive fitted).

Neil_Jones

TELLIT01 said:

Edge has always been extremely slow.  I've uninstalled Opera because it set itself as default browser and it was taking far too long to get into the settings to change it.  Computer takes a couple of minutes to startup, always has done.

Something's wrong somewhere because even on an HDD it shouldn't take "far too long to get into the settings" for anything.

grumpycrab

Yes, it may sound like a broken record but buy an SSD (512GB to take your 200GB of stuff); image the 200GB to it using macrium then swap the disks over.
If the image process has problems this will indicate a faulty HDD and you may have to resort to a  clean install of W10 to the SSD before manually copying HDD data over to it.

Jenni_D

And before you do any of the above - make sure you've got a backup of your data (and licence keys for any applications) first. If the HDD has an issue then the more you make it do, the more likely it is to fail, so get those backups before it falls over. (It failing during an image taking activity is not the end of the world - not having a backup first could be very problematical for you).