Microsoft Edge is rapidly becoming a widely-adopted application, not only because it's the new default on Windows 10, but also because of actually being a worthy browser.

However this doesn't necessarily mean there aren't items to improve, and something from the features Microsoft is currently trying to puzzle out is a bug causing the app to crash when loading YouTube.

As spotted by TechDows, an issue reported several weeks ago caused Edge 90 to close unexpectedly when YouTube is loaded in the browser, and also at the first glance, add-ons or third-party extensions aren't those to blame.

So the culprit might well be a browser component, and a Microsoft engineer has suggested disabling hardware acceleration to see if this helps.

Few people could possibly get YouTube up and running in Edge with this particular workaround though, so Microsoft is actively investigating the issue and calling for users to submit feedback in order to assist the company evaluate which exactly is happening.

Fix likely within the works

"To save the day by helping cover their the investigation, you should be capable of seeing the crashes you've experienced on edge://crashes," part of the Microsoft Edge team explains on reddit.

"There's a Send feedback button around the right side of this page for every crash the browser has logged, and providing additional context within the description is useful for the team to understand the context to the data. However, if you do not use whatever recent crashes, please do submit feedback should you experience the crash again immediately after recovering Edge by heading to the ... menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback."

At this time, it's not clear when a fix is supposed to land, but expect an update to determine the daylight any day now, especially because of the Microsoft Edge team is already considering all the reports.

The Canary version of the browser seems to be hitting similar crashes online.