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Microsoft Edge Web Browser Coming to the Mac Over 15 Years After Internet Explorer for Mac
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Chromium is the rendering engine from Chrome, and by itself doesn't have the privacy issues associated with the Chrome browser; efficiency issues are another matter though.
But regardless, both Opera and the Mac port of Edge will use it, meaning Edge won't be of much benefit to Mac users who are already aware of Opera.
Microsoft is also switching Edge to Chromium code base so apparently that makes it easier to bring it to the Mac.
Did either of you actually read the article? The articles you mentioned were rumors. Microsoft today verified that they will be rebuilding Edge to be based on the Chromium rendering engine. Edge is going no where and they called that out in this article.
Excep they dumped it to make another Chromium based broswer - just calling it Edge I guess - too bad.
S/he was talking about Netflix 4K.
Edge is the ONLY one that can do it AFAIK. However, that's on Windows. I'm not optimistic Netflix 4K will come to the Mac any time soon just because Edge is coming. Apple would likely need to implement it in the OS, but they haven't yet.
It's even more stupid because Apple already streams 4K video too... but only on iOS-based devices, not Macs, even though the 2017 and later Macs have full hardware support for the decoding and the DRM. Ironically, if you install Windows on a Mac, it streams Netflix 4K just fine... in Edge.
One big problem with Chrome though is that YouTube on Chrome uses VP9 for video decoding. Even though current Macs have hardware decode support for VP9, it is not utilized in Chrome on the Mac (because of lack of OS support I believe). This means that Chrome's video decoding eats battery. It's much more efficient on Safari since all the video from YouTube in Safari is h.264, which is decoded in hardware. The only limitation here is that Safari YouTube video is limited to 1440p, but that's actually OK.
This would line up with that news not go against it. Likely, a shift to Chromium will allow them to have native MacOS support so they're adding it. Unlike their current Edge browser which would require MacOS development from scratch.
Also, if they switch to Chromium it is very likely they will still call the browser MS Edge branding wise...
Chromium is open sourse today, on intel 32bit, 64 biitor on Arm processors. It's open source; nobody can take it away
I was using Edge on my Windows 10 desktop but found it too buggy when navigating the iCloud website. Kept logging me out. However Edge on my iPhone worked quite well. I don’t trust google so I’m now using Firefox on my desktop and iPhone and am quite happy with it.
Excited until i herd about the Chromium rendering engine, not sure how this is going to effect the operation of those enterprise applications which don't currently function in chrome. Wondering if we will need to go back to IE to start using these, which I would not be happy about, just got rid of our last IE only service 2 months ago.
Chrome is my main browser for everything else, switched years ago from Firefox when updates keep on having issues with extensive memory on older Macs. Also like having cross platform compatibility (Mac OS, iOS, and Windows), Firefox was too late to the game for iOS.
Chrome is my main browser for everything else, switched years ago from Firefox when updates keep on having issues with extensive memory on older Macs. Also like having cross platform compatibility (Mac OS, iOS, and Windows), Firefox was too late to the game for iOS.
Well, I'm always up for something (sidebar, but I've been following the Microsoft's Design blog, I really dig a lot of what they're doing with fluent design). I'm on android and would like to give something else a try that's cross-platform (FireFox is still stuttering a ton when scrolling). I'd love to see what Microsoft can do with Edge this time around.
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Android too. Scrolling stutters a lot.
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Android too. Scrolling stutters a lot.
Yeah
Sorry should’ve been clearer. I read that one of the major blockers to people buying Windows S mode machines was not being able to get Chrome.Let’s assume that MS (and its partners) will make the rumoured slimmer more locked down version of Windows on ARM with Windows Store apps only.
They can then market edge as basically the same as chrome - which you’re likely not going to be able to download (unless google uses the Microsoft chromium engine and puts it in the Microsoft store).
Microsoft never announced it. Some blog dolts thought that was happening and click-baited headlines. They were wrong.
Lol, please describe a use case to me where you’d be watching Netflix IN A BROWSER, on a screen large enough that you could differentiate 4K.
Obviously, all mobile devices can load the app, & in my case- where I have my Mac mini connected to a 55” 4K Roku TV; I run Netflix via the Roku app- I can’t imagine wanting to instead connect up to my mini, run inside a browser, and control from the couch using my keyboard & trackpad, rather than a remote.
Great now I can test my work on Edge along with Safari, FF, Chrome using my Mac.
Doubt if I'll use it for personal browsing though
Doubt if I'll use it for personal browsing though
Good to be able to optimise your website rendering for the 0.1% using edge across all platforms.
Seriously though edge should have dropped the Explorer branding. That e fills anyone with dread! MS makes pretty solid software and edge is good but they made it DOA with that association.
Seriously though edge should have dropped the Explorer branding. That e fills anyone with dread! MS makes pretty solid software and edge is good but they made it DOA with that association.
I can see the value within businesses. I have a remote instance of Windows on my Macbook so that I can use internet explorer to log into certain sites, mainly affiliated to M$.
Hopefully this will address it. I hate having to log into Windows.