So are Apple executives going to start saying. "I am going to launch Edge, my browser of choice" during the keynotes?
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Microsoft Edge Web Browser Coming to the Mac Over 15 Years After Internet Explorer for Mac
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Use Firefox. Support Mozilla's free and open source development. Firefox is ultra fast now (thanks to Project Quantum), secure, and not a Google botnet. If you haven't tried Firefox in a few years, I would suggest giving it a go again.
I hope it will be a better browser than Google Chrome. Since it uses Chromium, if Edge offers more native UI and lower resource usage, while improving developer tools, it would be enough for me to ditch Chrome as the secondary browser (I use Safari as the primary).
How would you know? It's based on Chromium and for a completely different platform. My guess is that it has nothing in common with the current Windows version except for the name. This could also be what the future Windows version will be like to according to the rumour from yesterday
I loved Firefox when I used Windows, but the current versions on MacOS is pretty terrible and I wouldn't recommend it
Pretty sure the rumor was that the rendering engine was changing to chromium from their own internal one. Not that they were ditching Edge altogether.
If they go this route I think it's great. It'll be a positive improvement to Windows.
I can see this making sense for their future Chromium updates. But in it's current state, Edge is simply a sub-par browser for both consumers and developers.
Question: When did you personally use the CHROMIUM-BASED version of Edge on ANY PLATFORM which will be the basis of this MacOS browser?
Beause people don’t want their entire browsing history sent to google regardless of your privacy settings.
[doublepost=1544118582][/doublepost]It’s so sales to government agencies can use Apple products...
Microsoft today announced that it expects to bring its Edge web browser to the Mac, possibly as early as next year.
"Microsoft Edge will now be delivered and updated for all supported versions of Windows and on a more frequent cadence. We also expect this work to enable us to bring Microsoft Edge to other platforms like macOS," said Microsoft.
The news was revealed as part of Microsoft's larger announcement that Edge will be rebuilt based on the open source Chromium rendering engine, with the first preview build expected to be available in 2019. It's unclear if the preview will initially be limited to Windows or extend to the Mac simultaneously.
Edge succeeded Internet Explorer as Microsoft's default web browser on Windows in 2015, with a mobile version later released for iOS and Android. It will be Microsoft's first web browser on Mac since Internet Explorer for Mac received its last feature update over 15 years ago, in June 2003.
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Did you guys even read the articles? They're saying the same thing as this MR article:
- Microsoft is poised to ditch Microsoft Edge, the default web browser on Windows 10, according to reports from The Verge and Windows Central.
- Instead, Microsoft could release a new browser that's based on Chromium, the web engine that powers the leading Google Chrome web browser.
What do you find terrible about it? I have no problems with it at all, in fact it's faster and less memory intensive than Chrome. Plus it has great support for privacy/security plugins.
Safari isn’t an option for me. I won’t use anything that doesn’t offer cross platform support between iOS, MacOS, and Windows. A chromium based edge browser interests me, as it would provide an alternative to Chrome (not a fan of Firefox).
The two articles are consistent. Microsoft is replacing the engine used in the edge browser with the chromium engine.
I've launched it a few times on Windows 10 and it completely froze after a few minutes each time, so, it never really gave me an incentive to keep trying.
The Edge browser they are talking about bringing to the mac is a rewrite of Edge based on Chromium. They aren't scrapping edge, just the engine it currently runs on.
They are ditching their unique engine and adopting the Chrome engine. Essentially they are turning Edge into a Chrome skin, sort of like what Opera did a while back.
I’ve actually seen Chrome bring networks to a grinding halt because of the Chrome server running hidden in the background conflicting with services on company servers as they fight for shared resources. It’s funny that Microsoft is switching to it. It’s likelu because Chrome has been downloaded on machines and actively blocking other browsers which is a problem I had at a hospital I worked at which required Explorer for many functions, but employees kept downloading chrome and they were no longer able to block it because of changes Google made that would force them to block most user internet functions to be able to block the download.
This is the real question. It's not like Edge offers unique features unavailable to Mac users.