r/MicrosoftEdge

Issue:

When watching YouTube videos, the audio starts playing slightly ahead of the video. Over time, the desync becomes noticeable: the audio continues normally, but the video appears delayed behind it.

This happens in both Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. It occurs even when I select 360p quality. Regular YouTube videos are affected, while music videos do not seem to show the issue as often.

Hardware acceleration is currently disabled in the browser.

Laptop specifications:

- Laptop make/model: Dell Latitude E7470

- OS: Windows 10 Pro

- CPU: Intel Core i7-6600U @ 2.60 GHz

- GPU: Intel HD Graphics 520

- GPU memory usage in Task Manager: approximately 0.2/3.8 GB

- Microsoft Edge version: 155.0.4283.45 (Official build, 64-bit)

- Google Chrome version: 154.0.8037.98 (Official build, 64-bit)

What I have already checked:

- The issue occurs in two Chromium-based browsers, Edge and Chrome.

- It occurs even at 360p, so it does not appear to be caused only by high-resolution playback.

- Hardware acceleration is disabled.

- GPU memory usage appears low in Task Manager.

What I have not tested yet:

- Hardware acceleration enabled

- Firefox or another non-Chromium browser

- Incognito/private mode with all extensions disabled

- Updating or reinstalling the Intel graphics driver

- Changing the Windows audio sample rate/format

- Testing the same videos on another device or network

Questions:

1. Could this be caused by the Intel HD Graphics 520 driver or hardware video decoding?

2. Could a Windows audio setting, browser extension, or YouTube codec issue cause audio to run ahead of video?

3. What is the best order of troubleshooting steps to identify the cause?

Edge has a newer feature where it will allow searching in scanned PDFs. I help proctor open book (the book being a pdf) exams where we lock the PDF and scan them as photos to stop searching. This locked things pretty well for most programs/computers and made it easier to proctor. But now Edge can bypass that, and becuase it is a popular browser it causes more issues for us.

Yes, we forfeit their exam if caught cheating so in the end consequences of their own actions; however, that's IF we catch them. Also, we don't really want to forfeit exams and yes people will cheat no matter what, but we want to lessen their ability. It makes for a more positive exam environment for them and for us proctors.

Any ideas on how to better lock the PDFs or stop the new Edge feature so people can't text search?

Most screenshot extensions I tried captured for free but locked editing, blur or PDF export behind a paid plan. So I built Stillframe for Edge.

What it does:

- Full page (scroll + stitch), visible area, or drag-select

- Sticky headers appear once instead of repeating down the image

- Editor: crop, arrows, boxes, pen, highlighter, text, blur

- PNG / JPG / multi-page PDF, or copy to clipboard

- Last 30 captures stored locally

It uses activeTab instead of "access to all sites", so it can only see the tab you capture, when you capture it. No servers, no analytics.

Limits I couldn't get around: browser pages (settings, stores) can't be captured; apps that scroll inside a panel (lots of email apps) only get what's on screen; pages over ~32,000px get cut off (it tells you).

Free, no Pro tier. Would love feedback, especially on what's missing.

Stillframe – Full Page Screenshot & Editor - Microsoft Edge Addons

Tengo el siguiente problema con Microsoft Edge en Windows:

Inicio sesión en cualquier cuenta, puede ser de correo o de casi cualquier otra cosa, está bien mientras esté abierto el navegador pero luego de cerrarlo es una ruleta rusa cuanto tiempo pase hasta que me cierre todas las sesiones que haya iniciado, pueden ser minutos o de inmediato pero siempre me cierra las sesiones el navegador.

Antes esto no me ocurría, un día luego de una actualización del navegador me empecé a notar que se cerraban las sesiones pero pensaba que era mi laptop que estaba fallando pero desde hace un tiempo que cambié de equipo a uno nuevo y ocurre también en este.

No tengo ninguna configuración rara que pueda generar el error y es algo que no pasa con los otros navegadores que uso.

PD. Parece que las únicas cuentas que no me cierra son las de Epic Games y la de Steam 🙃