Microsoft’s Edge for Mac browser now available in preview

I must say, I&#x27;m a little bit impressed. it&#x27;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&#x27;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...

That domain name looks like a phishing attack waiting to happen.

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&#x27;t see why it should cut in a market, especially in non-Windows operating systems.

A less cross-platform version of Chrome. Just what the world was waiting for.

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&#x27;s engine and allows extensions I&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.windows.com&#x2F;msedgedev&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;20&#x2F;microsoft-edge-macos-canary-preview&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.windows.com&#x2F;msedgedev&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;20&#x2F;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoftedgeinsider.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;download" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoftedgeinsider.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;download</a><p>dang it would be good to get the title updated.

Downloaded this to see if my startup&#x27;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.

Does this include the IE11 mode or is that seperate and Windows only?

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Microsoft is making macOS cool again with some innovative software. Apple is still emoji king, though.