Edge 134.0.3124.51 breaks Web Teams on Apple Silicon

[tommiy]

I normally use web teams for comms as i found it used to take less resources. Some where in the last 4 days microsoft has updated Microsoft Edge to version 134.0.3124.51 which has resulted in web Teams heating up silicon Macs to high 85C and making the fan whirl. This is almost the only time i can say I have noticed the fans running. After a while the mac crashes and reboots. I have tried this on both a M1 Max and a M4 MAX using this version of edge; both behave identically.

If you create a plist so edge does not update, then send edge to the trash, and install version 133.0.3065.69 and then run web teams again you will find that with dual external displays that the cpu temperature sits about 62-7C.

I also tried this on a brand new account that never had edge previously installed and had the same behaviour. there is no easy way other than feedback to microsoft to report a problem. Hoping this assists some one else.

 

[dmccloud]

Yet another reason I don't even use Edge on my gaming PC. Microsoft found a way to take a decent browser base (Chromium) and make it buggier and less functional under their own banner. Have you tried the standalone Teams app to see if it behaves any differently?

 

[tommiy]

Sorry I don't see what that has to do with bad coding in edge. 1 version earlier in edge and you can run teams all day at 52-53C on a M1 or M4 Max. Latest version drives the machine to overheat and reboot after 10 minutes. Slowing the fans down will just make it over heat faster and fail faster. Its just a edge bug and some thing in there that appears to only impact Silicon Macs. Intel Macs do not seem to be impacted. That is the reason I originally posted in Apple Silicon. So it runs just very very poorly on a silicon mac...first time I've seen a M4 Max literally hard reboot with no error at all......just kills it. And the cores are not running hard at the time. No idea what the code in Edge is doing but also don;t have the time to try and resolve for microsoft. Quick work around is to roll edge back.