Microsoft‘s new Internet browser, Edge, wants to gain a foothold in the market and compete head-to-head with other proposals such as Chrome. Despite the good results it offers, it is not perfect software. That is why we are going to see how to solve the most common Edge errors that you can find.
As most of you will surely remember, together with Windows 10 Microsoft launched a browser that replaced Internet Explorer, but it had little success. We refer to the classic Edge that, despite being pre-installed in Windows, was hardly accepted. That is why the Redmond-based firm decided to embark on a project that it continues to work on. Specifically, we refer to the new Edge browser that replaces the classic in every way.
The new Edge has arrived to compete with Chrome
The first thing to keep in mind is that here we are talking about one of the types of programs that are most used today. Hence the interest that companies of the importance of Microsoft are putting in the development of all this. For this some time ago it made its new Edge Chromium available to everyone with which it wants to compete with Chrome, for example. Therefore, it could be said that this is one of Microsoft’s most ambitious projects in recent times, hence its efforts.
For those of you who still don’t know him, say that despite the name being the same, Edge, this new project has nothing to do with the classic. Here we are faced with a completely different software that already discards the criticized EdgeHTML engine to use Blink, Chrome’s rendering engine, among many other browsers. The truth is that it is a more than interesting software that does not stop growing and evolving. However, as with most software, it is not exempt from errors, either due to its own or external failures. That is why below we will talk about some of the most common and how to solve them.
Common errors that we can find in Edge
There are several problems that we can find in this new and interesting Microsoft project . It is true that they are not common, but when they occur suddenly, they can become an inconvenience in our work. That is why we must try to solve all this as quickly as possible as effectively as possible. Therefore, below we are going to talk about a series of bugs that have already been reported on several occasions by the regulars of this browser , and their possible solutions.
So, with all this, what we are going to try is to fix the most common Edge errors in a simple way, even if you are not advanced users.
Browser installation failure
In the event that when trying to manually install the new Edge we find an error that tells us that the installation has failed, let’s see how to fix it. For this, what we can do is visit the official download page of the program from this link so that we can download and install it manually.
We download this like any other program, after which we run the Edge installation file and wait for the installation to finish. However, if despite all this we see an error that reads: The installation failed due to an unspecified error. If Microsoft is currently running, please close it and try again, we have another solution.
The first thing will be to close the message that we are commenting on and in this case we access the Microsoft Edge website for companies, something we can do from this link . Here we select the latest stable 64-bit version for Windows, and download it. Once the download is complete, we run the MSI file called MicrosoftEdgeEnterprisex (64) and this time Edge will install successfully and without failures.
Edge does not allow us to synchronize our data
In the event that we log into Edge with the Microsoft account , we synchronize the information on all the devices that use that account. But it can also be the case that this data synchronization that we are talking about does not work. Keep in mind that here we refer to elements of the importance of favorites, autofill data, passwords, extensions, collections, etc.
But if for some reason, when entering the account credentials , this data is not synchronized, the solution is simple. The first thing we do is go to the program menu, and then click on the Settings option. After that, in the left panel, we select Profiles, and we are going to Synchronize. In the case of finding the error mentioned before, at the bottom of the window we click on Reset synchronization.
Edge runs but closes only after a few seconds
This is another bug that many users have found after installing Microsoft’s browser on their computers. Specifically, we mean that the program starts up, but after a few seconds, it closes by itself without us doing anything. To solve this, the first thing we recommend is to install the most recent version of the browser, since an old version may fail on some PCs.
In addition, in the event that we have third-party security or antivirus software running on the computer, we should also update it. This is because these programs may be generating some kind of conflict, hence Edge cannot work.
Edge suddenly crashes on some websites
Another of Edge’s most common errors in this regard is that suddenly and without apparent explanation, the software crashes . At that time we can no longer do anything with it, just restart it, which is a problem if that persists. Therefore, at this point, we will tell you which is the most common solution is to delete data such as cache, cookies or history.
To do this, what we do is open the program menu, go to Settings, and in the left panel choose the Privacy, search and services option. On the right side we can already see a section called Delete exploration data , so we click on Choose what to delete. Here we already find the data that we comment on and that Edge has stored, as well as the period of time for which we want to delete.
