Troubles handling redirect url's in Edge

In Chrome or IE, when we start the browser with url x , and then get redirected to url y, everything works fine. Although both browsers incorrectly report that they have successfully started with url y (not true, they should have logged the original url x), they properly wait until the page is done loading and then continue.

Edge seems to actually try to wait until url x has been fully loaded. Which it won't since it triggered a redirect to y . It keeps waiting the default time out for 'page(*)' and then it says it was unable to navigate to x.

What is the reasoning behind this different behavior?

(Note: We cannot directly start the browser with url y as a workaround)