Microsoft Edge Web Browser Coming to the Mac Over 15 Years After Internet Explorer for Mac

[itguy06]

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.

I've got dual 27" 4k monitors hooked up to my PC. You can also hook them up to a Mac. Or hook a Mac or PC up via HDMI to a 4k TV. 27" iMacs are also 4k. AFAIK there is no Netflix app for OS X like there is for Windows so any viewing on a Mac would be in a browser.

 

[schneeland]

I wouldn't bother anyway, but wasn't there just talk of M$ ditching Edge..?

edit: https://www.extremetech.com/interne...soft-to-scrap-edge-for-chromium-based-browser

literally two days ago.

If I understand https://blogs.windows.com/windowsex...etter-through-more-open-source-collaboration/ correctly, then these two are related: Microsoft is ditching their own rendering engine and replacing it with the one from Chromium, but they will keep Edge as a product and - since Chromium basically already runs on Mac - also bring it to MacOS.

 

[indieda]

Does it support 4K Netflix and YouTube?

 

[kyjaotkb]

What everyone had been asking for. A MS browser. For the Mac. Built on Chromium.

Still no sign of bringing pivot tables to iOS Excel, though. Sad Microsoft.

PS if Apple wants to bring back Safari for Windows, though, my work laptop is ready...
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I think it's safe to say that absolutely nobody cares (about a MS browser for Mac). Nobody is going to use it except for a few curious techies.

Until O365 ‘accidentally’ breaks on Safari...

 

[kreasonos]

Umm, why would they be bringing the Edge browser to Mac when they just announced they were quitting Edge and going to their own version of Chromium?

 

[brenton289]

lol why? no one will use it

 

[Tech198]

Changing the game "yet again", I'm just lucky i can't remember back that far, and defiantly never used Macs in 2003.

lol why? no one will use it

That's my first as well,but people look at Windows and carry the same logical step over to the Mac, which is the wrong way to think.'

Who knows. Microsoft may actually improve in on Mac... With no registry on Mac, it should be better in itself.

Just as long is it don't use a "translation" from Windows code to Mac code. (emulated)

 

[JetLaw]

While bashing this may be the fashionable thing to do, the idea of getting a Google-free Chrome-like experience is appealing to me. I’ll certainly give it a try. If it sucks then I’ll be back to make fun of it, but until then I’ll just hope that it ends up being good.

 

[EugW]

While bashing this may be the fashionable thing to do, the idea of getting a Google-free Chrome-like experience is appealing to me. I’ll certainly give it a try. If it sucks then I’ll be back to make fun of it, but until then I’ll just hope that it ends up being good.

It likely won't be anything like Chrome. But that may be a good thing.

Remember, Chrome on iOS uses WebKit, but it doesn't feel anything like Safari.

Umm, why would they be bringing the Edge browser to Mac when they just announced they were quitting Edge and going to their own version of Chromium?

I guess you didn't bother reading this thread, because it's already been answered several times in this thread. But I'll bite:

First off, MS has made no such announcement that they are killing Edge.

See above. If the rumours are true, it sounds like MS is deprecating their one browsing engine, and will be developing Edge using Chromium going forward.

 

[robertcoogan]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I'll pass.

 

[Jimmy James]

Alexa, tell Cortana to tell Siri to tell Safari to download Edge.

You stole my line.

 

[Justanotherfanboy]

I've got dual 27" 4k monitors hooked up to my PC. You can also hook them up to a Mac. Or hook a Mac or PC up via HDMI to a 4k TV. 27" iMacs are also 4k. AFAIK there is no Netflix app for OS X like there is for Windows so any viewing on a Mac would be in a browser.

I genuinely don’t get it...
I really don’t. I’ve used HTPC systems for years, & I certainly think having a large monitor can be great- you know, for performing PC tasks on a large screen, but considering the fact that there’s like a dozen competing products, most in the $20-$50 range... all that function as “dumb” video players. No OS maintenance, no OS overhead, no background processes, no wasting of power... running a full PC to do something that a teeny box/stick can do better, etc. I guess I have a hard time wrapping my head around the type of antiquated thinking where a user would prefer running a full PC with an awkward web-based/browser-embedded finicky proprietary video player, controlled by two separate pieces of hardware that are not conducive to a “home theater” experience, when the aforementioned cheapo products can allow you to put that HTPC into sleep mode & offput your video entertainment tasks to a more befitting platform, using the same screen.
If I had your setup, this is CERTAINLY what I’d do. I can’t see having a lovely setup like that, yet subjecting myself to how people were forced to watch online content in the late 90’s. Yuck!!!

 

[jcshas]

I think there are a lot of enterprises customers who will appreciate having MS Edge integrated across both platforms.

 

[The Hammer]

I would certainly give it a look.

 

[Joecool5150]

P!$$ off MS. Like we need your crappy browser. Next thing they'll come around and offer us Zune tech for the next iPhone.

 

[atomicparker]

I’ve been pretty impressed with Microsoft’s focus of late on their products, cross platform.

I’ll definitely give this a try.

I'm old enough to remember Old Microsoft. That didn't play well with others or build good software because it was a near-monopolist and could just stomp on the competition instead.

Nope.

 

[OdT22]

I'm old enough to remember Old Microsoft. That didn't play well with others or build good software because it was a near-monopolist and could just stomp on the competition instead.

Nope.

Meanwhile, it's almost 2019. Try not to get stuck.

 

[Scottsoapbox]

isnt that a good thing?

Did I say or even imply it wasn't a good thing?
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I'm old enough to remember Old Microsoft. That didn't play well with others or build good software because it was a near-monopolist and could just stomp on the competition instead.

Nope.

That was back when the government threatened to break up Microsoft and look how it and the market changed. Now a days we have monopolies and dualopolies piling up and the government does nothing.

 

[Macbookprodude]

That's a download I can pass on.
MS used to make a good browser, now between Firefox and Safari; I'm good .... thanks

Decades late, and dollars don't matter.

Agreed, Edge is junk and i use this at my job where we have windows 10 machines. Thanks, but no thanks..

 

[317342]

Micro$oft spent well over a year shoving something down everyone's throats and someone, somewhere in Redmond is still surprised that people hate it.

Yet, no sooner do I understand people who like Micro$oft or love Windows.

 

[MacBH928]

In an age where people are abandoning Chrome in favour of more private internet usage... why would anyone pickup a another data collector based company.

Seriously, FireFox and Brave are both great and open source, lets support the smaller guys instead of giving even more power to the bigger guys. I ditched chrome and I miss nothing.

If you are not pleased you can still use Safari which is still better option than Google or Microsoft.

 

[JoeCassara]

The idea is to allow web designers and developers, who usually get work done on macOS, to test their code on Edge without the need for a Windows box or VM.

Tom Warren at The Verge:

Microsoft is now bringing Edge to the Mac. We understand it’s not a move designed to grab more market share specifically; it’s more about making it easier for developers to test Edge. Microsoft hasn’t committed to a specific date for Edge on the Mac, but we expect to see it later next year.​

 

[Romeo_Nightfall]

Really? Two days ago they announced they are discontinuing it. Hand-me-downs?

They discontinue it for windows
next ... they discontinue windows
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Edge = Chrome. Read between the lines people.. this is the best news to come out of Redmond possibly ever. Do you know what this means? Finally, there is a light at the end of the tunnel for web devs who have been maintaining a MS-specific codebase for decades. Goodbye IE, you old bastard. And we could not possibly care less that there's a Mac version.

wait till m$ finds a way to destroy edge ... they have a history ... IE was an evil nightmare ... so its good to not trust m$ too easily ... call it revenge, or whatever - i find it important to punish companies for what they have done to the whole world!

 

[imageWIS]

Do you have Netflix? Do you watch Netflix on your computer? Do you want to watch it in 4K? You can only do that with MS Edge. Any. Other. Questions?

 

[PKoz]

It's a very good browser. Hopefully people who think their snarky comments are clever and appreciated will have actually used it and judged it on the merits first.

edit: too late lol.

What's good about it? I have it on Wondows and think it is garbage. Firefox is king as far as I am concered. I use Firefox and Safari.