Microsoft Edge Browser Now Available With Native Support for M1 Macs

[TheMacDaddy1]

did anyone REALLY ask for this

Actually yes. My company uses Office 365 and Edge can be logged into that account and you can search all kinds of stuff for your company....people, documents, etc.

Also Edge on the Mac (Intel for me) is still faster than Safari and supports REAL ad blockers like Ublock Orgin. It is Chromium on the Mac with out Google.

I wish Apple would take Chromium and put their spin on it.

 

[Traverse]

I actually really like Edge. It's well designed, feels far more Mac-like than Firefox, and has many of the features I love in Safari (such as built-in Reading List). While Safari is my main browser, if I ever moved to Windows or development of Safari ceased, I'd move over to Edge without much hesitation. While I want to support Firefox if for no other reason than to help the web not become just Chrome's rendering engine, it's such a poorly optimized Mac app.

The only thing I actively hate about Edge is that you have to install it with a package file rather than just moving the application to the Applications folder. It also installs MS Auto Update which is very annoying, but that's the MS way.

 

[TheMacDaddy1]

It is compatible with any adblock?

The intel version does. I can't speak to this version since my Mac mini does not arrive until the 21st. The Intel version allows Ublock Orgin, which IMHO is the best add blocker hands down.

 

[TheMacDaddy1]

Edge is a great browser. It is the same rendering engine as Chrome, with the same compatibility as Chrome, without any of Google's add tracking. I would not sleep on it if you have not tried it. For sites like YouTube TV that simply do not work on Safari, ill use edge every time.

Safari works just fine with YouTube. I use 14x and Wipr and I do not see ads.

 

[nt5672]

Excellent. We continually have problems with Safari. Yes, it is supposed to be more secure, but there are many sites (that are secure) that Safari has problem with. Apple just does not get that sites sometimes do not adhere to standards. Apple has become the Microsoft of the 80s and 90s.

 

[PTLove]

Safari works just fine with YouTube. I use 14x and Wipr and I do not see ads.

Youtube TV, not Youtube.

 

[dogslobber]

Microsoft is the top developer for Mac who is not Apple.

 

[BuffaloTF]

Best browser available? This post is about Microsoft's Edge browser, not Mozilla Firefox

the year is currently 2020. Not 2002.

 

[drcre8tive]

Is browsing the web using the Edge browser called "edging"?

 

[xnsys]

Does anybody actually use anything apart from Safari? I personally see no reason not to as it works fine for me, and I would personally trust Apple more than Google and Microsoft.

 

[ElectricPotato]

did anyone REALLY ask for this

"People don't know what they want until you show it to them." -- Steve Jobs

 

[jive turkey]

Does anybody actually use anything apart from Safari? I personally see no reason not to as it works fine for me, and I would personally trust Apple more than Google and Microsoft.

According to the latest (unscientific and very small sample sized) poll on the Mac Apps sub-forum, 43% use a browser other than Safari. That might be higher than a true number would be (I don't know), but I wouldn't be surprised if a third of Mac users or more are on alternative browsers.

 

[tadunne]

Wow took them long enough to put their logo on to chrome

 

[xterratop]

There is no way I would want to download this browser. Really MS? They'll track your every move.

 

[JOBS-3:16]

Is browsing the web using the Edge browser called "edging"?

Edging is much more enjoyable.

 

[mazz0]

Let's see...

Faster
Uses far less memory with all the same tabs and extensions enabled (around 1/3 the total Chrome uses)
They stripped out all of Google's tracking services, using strictly the rendering engine
To that previous point, there's far more Privacy settings that are very easy to find, like Brave, to give more granular control
Has PlayReady DRM in addition to WideVine, so you can use it for more media sites
Tracking Prevention (like Safari) by default
And for those in an older Enterprise Corpo world... IE mode

Those sound like reasons it's better than Chrome, but being better than Chrome would only make it the best if Chrome was the only other browser.

 

[mzeb]

I still remember the dumpster fire that was the IE Preview that shipped with OS X 10.0. Contrasting that with the solid, highly compatible browser that Edge is kinda breaks my brain. Hat's off MS, ya done good.

 

[Traverse]

I wish Apple would take Chromium and put their spin on it.

Well technically, Chromium is Google’s Blink engine which was their fork of WebKit which was pioneered by Safari.

So essentially Chrome’s roots are in Safari’s WebKit, but that was a while ago.

 

[Traverse]

Safari works just fine with YouTube. I use 14x and Wipr and I do not see ads.

Wipr is a great extension. Non-envasive.

Maybe not as powerful as others mentioned here, but many of those require full access to all browsing activity. Wipr claims to not.

 

[jlseattle]

LMAO! Microsoft! Even PC users hate that browser.

 

[peneaux]

Why not use Chromium?

Brave is good for having ad blocker built in but It feels bloated. And they got caught inserting referral links.

 

[Allards]

nice that M1 Macs are getting so much native software this fast.

 

[H00513R]

Edge, err Chromium, is better than Safari, but I would still use FF if I went to something else.

 

[lixuelai]

Edge is a great browser. Only wish it had iMessage integration like Safari does for pass codes.

 

[BuffaloTF]

Those sound like reasons it's better than Chrome, but being better than Chrome would only make it the best if Chrome was the only other browser.

I mean, this is true, but if your battle is Chromium vs Webkit, then Chromium currently has better HTML5 support and Edge uses less resources than Safari as well. The Privacy Report in Safari is quite nice, and the seamlessness between devices is definitely the high water mark. All in, functionally Edge is still better but the total user experience for Safari might win you over.