When we first upgraded to Windows 10, one of the sales points was the Edge browser which was hugely fast – so fast that we were prepared to live with the lack of extensions like Ad-bloc Pro.

Over the last month, Edge has been getting slower. Part of the problem is that it spends ages trying to download banner adverts before letting you scroll down to read a page.

But it is a lot more than that. Edge can take up to a minute to download a page and just seems to have a snooze for no apparent reason.

We thought it was something to do with our settings, but a quick search shows that the problem is common. Looking through the various boards we find that there a lots of people venting their spleen against Edge. Some have had even larger problems including complete browser freezes.

Varying suggestions for a fix have been made. For example there is disabling Java script – we have not tried this because too much of our web-based work depends on it.

Going back to Internet Exploder is not an option as Windows 10 refuses to run it so the only real option is Chrome, Firefox or Opera.

The question remains is how did Edge go downhill so fast? When the browser was being tested, we and others thought it was a notable improvement on IE. But as it bedded in, it appears to be buggy and now nearly useless. It feels like something went wrong with one of WIndows 10's updates.  But since Redmond does not tell us what these updates are any more it is impossible to roll-back.

 Why, as the complaints are rising, is Microsoft not doing anything about it.  It was rumoured that one of the updates fixed the problem, but when it came out it only made matters worse.