Meanwhile, the people who have actually been actively using Edge likely won't notice much of a change-unless Microsoft bobbles something in the user data import functionality when they push the official, non-beta version out through Windows Update later this month. Pushing the new Edge as something to look forward to right now is difficult-we suspect most people who really care about their browser will continue using Chrome, Firefox, or whatever less-well-known variant they've found and learned to love. This is described as a temporary problem in the "Known Issues" page, and it may even be fixed already in the production version launching today. We don't want to see the full-on Google Chrome become any more indispensable than it already is-but we don't think Microsoft trading in its own fully proprietary, closed-source HTML-rendering engine for one of the two biggest open source rendering engines is a bad thing.Ĭhromium-based Edge is still missing a couple of obvious features to compete with the full Google Chrome experience-most notably, browser history and extensions don't sync between devices yet. ![]() While there is some validity to worrying about one company "controlling the Web" and one of Google's biggest competitors now becoming a Google downstream, we don't think those concerns add up to much. Edge didn't have the breadth of extensions or the user-base enthusiasm of Chrome or Firefox-and it was no better than they are at running crusty old "Internet Explorer Only" websites and Web apps. It's not so much that Edge was a bad browser, per se-it just didn't serve much of a purpose. We've seen one take waxing nostalgic for the old, purely Microsoft developed version of Edge, but we don't think many people will miss it much. There were just a few rough edges as far as installing extensions, logging into them, and the like. The new Edge project began with a complete and fully functional Web browser-Chromium-so it worked fine for browsing the Web. ![]() The beta was still pretty raw then-but "raw" is a relative term. We covered the beta version of Chromium-based Edge in November. But will anybody use it?As of Wednesday, January 15, Microsoft will make the non-beta version of its new, Chromium-based version of the Edge browser to Windows 10 Home and Pro users. ![]() Further Reading Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux.
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