Microsoft Launches First Chromium Edge Builds (venturebeat.com) 123
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today released the first Edge builds based on Google's Chromium open source project, the same browser that Google's Chrome is based on. Microsoft is even adopting the same naming scheme that Google uses for Chrome development: It is debuting Canary (preview builds that will be updated daily) and Developer builds (preview builds that will be updated weekly) today. They can both be installed alongside the old Edge as well as each other. You can download these builds now from the Microsoft Edge Insider site.
Canary Edge (Score:2, Funny)
Hello! I wish to register a complaint about a bird I bought in this very boutique not an hour ago!
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Re:Why would I want Microsoft Chrome? (Score:5, Insightful)
What differentiates this from regular Chrome?
All the monitoring, tracking and advertising of Chrome, now with the added shiny telemetry of MicroSoft! and probably Bing search.
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What monitoring, tracking and advertising is that?
Please state specifically what monitoring, tracking and advertising Chrome does with the default settings. As far as I'm aware the only thing it sends is a randomly generated installation ID when checking for updates. Default search engine is Google but you can change it. Chrome does not have any advertising built in.
Re: Why would I want Microsoft Chrome? (Score:1)
For me the reason to switch is MS gathering data, not Google.
We use MS services intensively and don't want to remember tokens with Google or let Google track internal URLs usage. MS knows it anyway - they provide services first place.
Re: Why would I want Microsoft Chrome? (Score:1)
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Edge is pretty meh.
But having a web standard compliant Chromium engine embedded in the OS on 3 platforms (Windows 10, Android, Chrome OS) allows the next generation of desktop web apps to take off - without the Electron boat-anchor.
Which as a developer it may be your cup of tea or a completely useless security hole; touch wood with Google writing the code, sandboxing issues that plagued IE6 and Windows 98 should hopefully be a thing of the past.
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Why do I want this... (Score:3)
... when I can just install Chrome? ;)
Re:Why do I want this... (Score:5, Insightful)
Or more importantly, Firefox.
Re: Why do I want this... (Score:4, Insightful)
How about you not develop for stuff not widely available? You know, like using standards and not creating another IE6 scenario.
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Chrome is plugged into Google's analytics platform.
Edge is plugged into Microsoft's analytics platform
choose your poison?
Re:Why do I want this... (Score:5, Informative)
... when I can just install Chrome? ;)
Because it will probably be the default on all future releases of Microsoft Windows and you'll want to test your web apps for compatibility.
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You do not. We do not. Microsoft does. I am sure Windows users will not have a choice as it will come with some future build of windows...
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biggest difference is that, in future, you'll be using this to download the firefox installer instead of edge.
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To have another user or cookie session.
That's why i have a number of more or less obscure browser installed next to my favorite which is firefox.
Edge using chromium actually might make it useful. Even if the price is to send telemetry to MS instead of mozilla or google. I wonder if they will release Edge for Linux and the BSD's.
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You could just open up a Firefox incognito session. That's what I do with Chrome when I need a clean slate not tied to any cookies or prior auth credentials.
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Your sys admin doesn't let you install Chrome (Score:2)
As for why you'd want what is basically a pre-release build? You're a web dev and need to test your application.
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Influence the leaks had on this release (Score:2)
So basically... (Score:2)
So basically the same browser, only the telemetry is sent to Microsoft and Bing is the default search engine?
Oh boy, where do I sign up?
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So basically the same browser, only the telemetry is sent to Microsoft and Bing is the default search engine? Oh boy, where do I sign up?
More likely, to both Microsoft and Google.
Microsoft or Google? (Score:2)
1990's evil or 2010's evil?
A Hob son's choice!
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It's not a choice at all. 2010s evil has done wonders for advancing the industry. The 1990s evil actively held the world back.
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Only for Windows 10 so far (Score:2)
Coming soon for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and macOS.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoftedgeinsid... [microsoftedgeinsider.com]
No word on Windows 9. ;-)
It syncs with your microsoft account. (Score:5, Informative)
It appears if you login with your microsoft account, it will sync your windows, microsoft, chrome, (maybe firefox) accounts, syncing your passwords, payment info, addresses to your microsoft account if you login in.
Mine loaded my chrome profile, then offered to "sync" it with my microsoft account.
Why was Edge a failure? (Score:2)
...and how this will not?
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...and how this will not?
Because Microsoft can't code a browser engine to save themselves, so by piggybacking off the work of others they cut costs and mask incompetence at the same time.
I stopped using Microsoft browsers years ago (Score:2)
No thank you. I stopped using Microsoft browsers years ago. The main reason was pages would continue to load after I clicked the stop button, and repeatedly clicked the stop button. Another reason around that time was they added the ability to change the colors of the scroll bars. The vendor my company used for an application changed the scroll bar colors so they blended into the page. The security issues were a minor issue.
Working for a vendor, I also was in a position where one of my jobs was to reso
Chrome is the new IE (Score:2)
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2F2018%2F... [theverge.com]
Re: Chrome is the new IE (Score:3)
Open source, cross-platform, regularly updated, no ActiveX, and standards-compliant. Nothing like IE in fact.
Re: Chrome is the new IE (Score:2)
It was only ever in IE
Netflix 4K (Score:2)
I use Edge to play Netflix 4K videos. I wonder if this change breaks that capability.
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Why? If you're using Edge I guess you have access to the Microsoft Store. Why not just download the Netflix app?
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Netflix app was... problematic... 4K content made it buggy. Oddly enough I think it's just a frontend to IE or Edge though. Maybe it's better now. I could always give it a shot.
Just What I Always Wanted (Score:1)
A Hug From Microsoft (Score:2)
Welcome! (Score:2)
I, for one, welcome our new Microsoft Chromium Edgelords!
Default search engine for Edge is Bing. (Score:1)
I have been using the Edge based on Chromium for a since yesterday morning.
Edge now allows you to import your bookmarks and cookies from Chrome.
Transitioning to the new version of Edge is easy.
Functionally, the two browsers seem similar.
When I searched for a method to change the default search engine, several web sites mentioned that it was not possible with the current Edge developer build as of yesterday morning.
I just searched for and found some instructions for changing the default search engine, that I
Missing features... (Score:2)
I only just installed it, but the new browser seems to be missing all the features that made Edge my default browser. No inking support. No tab groups. No translate button in the address bar. No built-in reading mode.
Sigh. I hope this gets better.