•  I was playing a lot of videos on high quality since a long time on my laptop. After sometime a thing came to my notice. Whenever I play videos on my browser, the Resource Usage spiked, but when i played the same thing on locally resource usage was significantly lower.

• I came to a solution, which reduced the resource usage, particularly the CPU usage by 32%, while playing videos.

• Just a quick searching online, i got to know, that tweaking two flags in my browser, will help.

• Those two flags are: #enable-quic and #edge-mf-clear-domain-override

• I disabled both the above flags, and restarted my browser. The results were shocking!

• There were two YouTube Videos playing, a tab with ChatGPT, 2 tabs with Yahoo Search Resuls Pages. AND THE CPU USAGE WAS DROPPED TO JUST 5 - 7%..!!

• I also got a bonus tip. You can disable the #windows-scrolling-personality flag if you have gittery scroll usage on edge.

• You can just head to this url, and change the settings: edge://flags/

• As, I want to maximize the battery of my laptop, I use Efficiency mode, and Ghrapics Acceleration in edge settings.

• Also, note that I am using a thin and light laptop, which has only Intel's Integrated Ghrapics.

• I also did some more tests. Previously, my laptop can handle to play only two 4k 60fps videos smoothly, but after disabling those flags, and doing some other changes, I can easily play four 4k videos smoothly on Youtube, without frying my CPU.

• My CPU must be very relived from the torchure those two flags were giving to my CPU. 

• If you are facing the same, or curious to check in your laptop, search about the flags online and do it. I bet, you will also see a more efficient browser usage.

• Below are the images, for your reference. They are enlarged for clarity.