Chromium-based Edge preview builds

I wish they&#x27;ve would have gone with Firefox&#x27;s Quantum, in order to try and at least balance out web market shares.<p>MSFT no longer has any leverage in the web, so trying to keep it fair and accessible (no browser monopolies) should be a priority for them (especially since they have quite a few web platforms like office 365)

Can we finally stop saying safari is the new ie, and recognize that chrome is now <i>literally</i> the new IE?<p>Seriously, this means that chrome has more or less complete market dominance at this point.

To the surprise of no one, its basically chrome. Even my google account came in logged in automatically, same recent sites etc. I wonder if the roadmap will include things like dark mode, I never used the annotations feature so can&#x27;t vouch much for it. I&#x27;m yet to try to make a MS Teams call but looking good so far.<p>The single engine world domination plan takes one step further today.

I liked Edge because of its fantastic battery life (for browsing, Edge was like having a 25% larger battery.) I was annoyed that many sites seemed to be Chrome-specific, including some I absolutely need to rely on. I switched to Brave, and it&#x27;s amazing. Chrome-based, but somehow results in far better battery life than Chrome.

I think there&#x27;s a tongue-in-cheek joke about IE&#x2F;Edge being so bloated as is, that the only route they could take was to slap electron on top for even more memory usage.<p>All jokes aside, are they still using Chakra or switching to V8? I know there was a ton of work in node.js to make it work with chakra, not to mention edge was one of the early adopters of many ES2015&#x2F;ES6 features, it seems odd to me to abandon all of that momentum.

It’s truly remarkable that a company that was once nearly broken up by the government over its browser bundling, is now barely implementing a browser.

&gt; Support for Mac and all supported versions of Windows will also come over time.<p>Is anyone actually planning to use Edge on macOS? What reasons would you have for doing so?

I hope Microsoft makes a point of prioritizing efficiency over features in Chrome-Edge. Google has seemingly placed low resource consumption and low battery life impact as tertiary concerns (at best), opting to woo developers with a constant stream of hastily developed shiny features instead.<p>As it is the only browser that seems to care at all about not sucking your battery life down a black hole is Safari…

It seems like they do not have planned to support Linux. It simply says &quot;Not supported&quot; and on the download page it is not even mentioned: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoftedgeinsider.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;download&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoftedgeinsider.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;download&#x2F;</a>

It looks nice so far, but Microsoft really needs to drop the E logo, and maybe even the Edge name. Both already have negative connotations; and I don&#x27;t think Microsoft can now claim that it makes it easier to find access to the internet. Especially when Chrome and Safari on tablets and phones look nothing like the iconic blue E, and yet late age boomers can still figure out the devices.

Seriously, why is MS doing this? Internet Explorer died years ago, Edge never took off, and Google isn&#x27;t about to give up their market share for spyware without a fight. It&#x27;s like MS thinks this is Browser Wars 3.0. Heaven help me if it turns out that MS seems to be doing something comparatively good.

URL contains tracking device.

chrome:&#x2F;&#x2F;flags&#x2F;#enable-experimental-web-platform-features works but redirects to edge:&#x2F;&#x2F; :)

This wasn&#x27;t necessary, they just had to get rid of the slow, ugly UWP UI framework. The Edge rendering engine was fine.<p>It looks like this new Edge uses Win32 instead of UWP, so people will actually use it, and they&#x27;ll pat their own backs thinking the problem was the rendering engine. No, it was the stupid UI framework. &gt;:(

I mostly use Windows on Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet.<p>TL;DR - no 32bit builds. currently only 64bit builds.