Edge Chromium Release on January 2020

I have to commend Microsoft on the new Edge logo. It's different enough from the IE and old Edge logo that savvy users will notice the change, but similar enough that the users who "just click on the blue e to go to the internet" probably won't notice the change.

As someone who read a lot of Slashdot in the 90&#x27;s... what is the world coming to, when I&#x27;m rooting for Microsoft products because I <i>don&#x27;t</i> want monopolies in browsers and operating systems?

Google has shipped Manifest v3 in Chrome Canary, which severily limits how extensions are allowed to block and modify requests. What is Microsoft&#x27;s plan regarding Manifest v3 in Edge Chromium, are they going to deprecate the blocking capabilities of the webRequest API?

Is anyone familiar with embeddability of Chromium-based Edge? MS web engines have been able to be used in shared libraries in the past and I&#x27;m hoping a win32&#x2F;xaml control will be available for use. Even better if they contrib&#x27;d back the ability to leverage chrome DLLs.

This is great news for privacy. We can now use Edge when accessing Google services such as Gmail, and Chrome when accessing Microsoft services. That way we can prevent the browser from helping the services track you (such as by logging you into the Browser itself when logging into services such as gmail.)

Since Microsoft owns Github, and since Github leads the development of Electron, and since Microsoft leads the development of one of the most important Electron apps (VS Code), does Microsoft have any plans for increasing the sharing of code and developers between Edge Chromium and Electron?<p>Alternatively, do they have any plans for eliminating VS Code&#x27;s dependency on Electron?

I saw @maryjofoley refer to it as &#x27;Chredge&#x27; the other day which gave me a chuckle

Any word on a Linux release?

Edge switching chromium has made me care even less about it.

I called for this to happen over 5.5 years ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7909383" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7909383</a><p>I am thrilled that we&#x27;re nearly there. I happily favor using apps from companies that don&#x27;t base their primary existence on gathering and exploiting data about their users.

Is Microsoft now contributing to Chromium development?

I like the new logo a lot. But i very much dislike the fact that they seriously crippled the pdf and ebook functionality in the new browser. Especially since they also killed the old pdf Reader app and forced people to use the old Edge browser instead as their ebook and pdf reader.