I must say, I'm a little bit impressed.
it's fast and has a lot of settings that are simple to understand and still looks to favor privacy.<p>it can run Extensions from Microsoft and you can install additional extension stores (like google) with just a click. (of course not all extensions will work, like 1password+app didn't but 1password x, did)
Anyone know why you need to run an installer (with admin access)? Chrome is a plain-old .app which you can drag from a disk image... Is Edge installing shared frameworks or something?<p>Quick edit: extracting the contents of the installer, it looks like maybe it wants to install the Office auto updater at the same time...
What is an idea of Edge on Mac? Is there any incentive to provide a browser that is available on other OS-es than Windows? Vivaldi and Opera went similar way, trying to cut some piece of browser market cake using a Blink engine and similar ecosystem as Chrome. Except Edge-only (i.e. Skype, Office365, Stadia-like platform) business game I don't see why it should cut in a market, especially in non-Windows operating systems.
Does this mean that they will start allowing add-ons in the Android app? If I can get a web browser for my Android that uses Chrome's engine and allows extensions I'll switch to it in a heartbeat.<p>(And before someone replies with Kiwi, I personally am not comfortable using a (practically) closed source fork of mobile Chrome mantained by a single, unknown individual)
Direct link to announcement this report is based on: <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/05/20/microsoft-edge-macos-canary-preview/" rel="nofollow">https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/05/20/microsoft-edg...</a>
Good for Microsoft for continuing to support multiple platforms.<p>That said, unless they support Firefox style privacy containers, Edge is a no go for me.<p>I will still use Safari on iOS, but for macOS and Linux I am all in for Firefox unless another browser supports container privacy isolation.
Blogspam. Original URL: <a href="https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download</a><p>dang it would be good to get the title updated.
Downloaded this to see if my startup's Chrome extension is compatible. Looks like it is, which is good.<p>But it is dog-slow compared to Brave. I cannot imagine switching to a browser that is anywhere near this sluggish.