Final February, Microsoft printed an replace on WebUI 2.0 migration in its Edge browser. This journey permits Microsoft to hurry up its browser considerably and notably scale back loading occasions for varied components of Edge. Now, the corporate has a brand new replace with extra efficiency enhancements.

In a newly printed weblog submit, Microsoft described the most recent adjustments below the hood of its browser. Due to its dev efforts, the corporate managed to realize a serious milestone of decreasing first contentful paint load time under 300 ms (FCP measures how shortly UI components visually load). Microsoft claims that ready occasions over 300 or 400 ms considerably influence person satisfaction, and decreasing them under 300 ms ensures issues seem almost immediately, making the browser as much as trendy net requirements and stand out amongst opponents.

Because the final replace in February 2025, Microsoft has managed to scale back loading occasions by 40% on common throughout 13 totally different browser options, akin to settings, Learn Aloud, Cut up Display, and Workspaces. The corporate additionally printed a small video showcasing the advantages of utilizing WebUI 2.0 within the browser’s settings:

The migration to WebUI 2.0 is ongoing, which suggests loads of different components of the browser are ready for the replace. Within the coming months, Microsoft guarantees to maneuver extra components of the Edge browser to WebUI 2.0, together with Print Preview, Extensions, and different generally used bits.

It’s nice to see Microsoft specializing in essential areas of its browser and making essential enhancements within the areas that matter, not solely annoying customers with advertisements, pop-ups, and all kinds of roadblocks to stop them from downloading Chrome (some customers are seeing fewer of them). Lately, Microsoft eliminated plenty of bloat from Edge to streamline the expertise, and with the most recent efficiency upgrades, the browser works a lot better than earlier than.