Microsoft is building its own Chrome browser to replace Edge

[ThinkingSapien]

Microsoft is building its own Chrome browser to replace Edge

Redmond makes a big change to compete on the web

www.theverge.com

Microsoft will be phasing out their HTML rendering engine and adopting Chromium (the foundation of Chrome). On the desktop Microsoft had about 11% market share while Chrome had 67% as of November ( src ). Other browsers derived from Chromium include Opera and Brave. The Safari and Firefox browsers use different rendering engines and their share of users has been shrinking, giving the Chromium based browsers more dominance.

 

[Theo520]

the agony of defeat.

 

[HerCrazierHalf]

Well, Edge is just so painful. I hope the new browser let’s is actually tweak our own settings.

 

[ThinkingSapien]

Well, Edge is just so painful.

It’s great for one thing; downloading Chrome.

15 Years ago Microsoft’s browser had a dominant market position and made using other browsers painful; MSFT would implement non-standard features and developers would just make sure their pages worked on IE (they would break everywhere else). With Edge MSFT tried to make something that was standards complaint while Chrome/Chromium support some non standards features that don’t work so well in some other Browsers. One difference though is that while a single party owned the previous dominant browser Chromium is open source and receives contributions by a lot of companies (Not just Google. Samsung is the second largest contribute to it).

the agony of defeat.

I imagine they are no stranger to it. The Zune and Windows Phone might have given them some experience with that along with the Ultra Mobile PC.

 

[Theo520]

I imagine they are no stranger to it. The Zune and Windows Phone might have given them some experience with that along with the Ultra Mobile PC

Yes, they are no stranger to defeat. The initial microsoft smart phones were way ahead of the game, before Apple launched their phone. They just failed to respond for a number of years. They never should have bothered with Zune, the market was never gonna be in such media players.

 

[HerCrazierHalf]

But even where it works it’s painful. I do support stuff at work. The site we use actually does a few redirects for authentication and such. If I set a homepage Edge remembers the final destination, not the actual url entered. There’s no graceful way to remedy this.

 

[Zzyzx_Road]

I rarely used IE to begin with: only for sites that didn’t render correctly in my usual browser. Which for a long time was Firefox, but in the last few years, I’ve tried several other browsers and have settled on Brave for desktop/laptop, and Dolphin for phone. For now.

One of the things I look for is the ease with which ads can be blocked.