How to enable Extension Performance Detector in Microsoft Edge

Microsoft has introduced the Extension Performance Detector feature in the Edge browser, which helps you know which extensions can affect your browsing performance and how much space they take up on your browser. Then we will know which extensions affect the browser and can disable the extensions when needed. Below are instructions to enable the Extension Performance Detector feature in Edge.

How to enable Extension Performance Detector in Edge

Step 1:

At the interface on the Edge browser, users enter the line edge://flags/#edge-performance-extension-detection into the address bar on the browser, then press Enter to access.

Step 2:

Switching to the new interface, users will see the Extension Performance Detector flag below. Here we will switch to Enabled mode to activate the Extension Performance Detector feature in Edge .

Step 3:

At this point the user will restart the browser to apply the new changes.

The Performance Detector extension on Edge browser does not actively monitor performance but will display a warning pop-up when the browser is having problems, slowed down by 1 or more extensions installed on the browser.

Through this warning pop-up, we can turn off extensions that affect performance by swiping the white circle button to the left to disable, or choose to report it next time. Each extension displays the % of the browser's capacity being occupied.

Samuel Daniel

Update 09 December 2024