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Unless it doesn't run it very well. That would be... the engine Microsoft created for Edge. It does not compare well with the Chromium engine that powers Google's Chrome browser. Even the engine in Firefox is better than Edge's.
So Microsoft ate some crow, admitted that the Edge engine... well... sucks. And adopted the competition's engine.
The good news for Edge is that the browser, whose poor performance and behavior failed to catch the approval of more than a tiny fraction of Win10 users, may fare a little better now that it will use an engine that works better.
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Never could get Edge to work. It would just sit there and spin, endlessly.
Actually, for me the most exciting part of this news is that the revamped Edge will be compatible with Windows 7 and 8.1. That’s a big deal, given that Win7 is still the version of choice for half of the world’s Windows users.
IE11 and Edge give us problems at work with pages not loading or error messages popping up. Chrome is quicker. Firefox is what I use and it is very good but if websites are made with chrome in mind then it is back to the Internet Explorer vs Netscape days.
Once I started using Edge after the organization gave me a Surface Pro w/Win10, I decided I liked it. I was previously all about IE11 (??) but Edge seemed to perform better. The issue became that some legacy apps and new apps didn’t want to work in Edge. The VPN was happier with IE, the Oracle-based CRM was happier with Chrome. These behind-the-scenes dramas in tech-world are not enhancing the user experience except in the minds of the nerds.
Circa 1973 the movie “Roller Ball” was in the theaters. In this dystopian world, corporations ruled the world and they were simply extensions of the nation states and in control. They were the nation state.
It was a great movie but a warning just as 1984 was a warning. The leftist corporate states of today, such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, the vast majority of the media etc. are an existential threat to our republic. Oddly the corporate states in the movie were portrayed as neither right or left but just corporate tyranny. Corporate tyranny can be either left or right.
They are the face of tyranny. George Orwell was right.
Orwell completed his greatest novel living alone on the Isle of Jura off the Scotish coast. Summers there are wonderful. The winter is brutal. His warmth in his cottage was by oil fired stoves and his light at night was by lantern. It was a most fitting place for him to complete his greatest novel. He was dying from Tuberculosis.
After completion of his great work he returned to London and it was published. In his few years left his family cared for him. He was a brilliant man.
He went to Spain during the revolution and fought for the communists as a Republican. In Spain he found the evilness of Marxism. Oddly he was wounded not by Franco’s troops but by fights between Marxist forces.
He returned to England as a libertarian and light socialist. He abhorred Marxism on his return. If he had of lived longer he would have been a hard core conservative if he had seen what the socialism brought to his nation.
ps
Franco saved Spain from the communists. Juan Carlos his appointed heir saved Spain from Franco after Franco’s death.
Juan Carlos was to be the king of Spain with absolute dictatorial powers of a king. Upon Franco’s death Juan Carlos did assume these powers and then lead Spain to immediate democracy (he should have made it a republic but that is a different conversation).
The military revolted against Juan Carlos. Juan Carlos had no army as the army was his foe. Juan Carlos walked into parliament and demanded the military step down. They did. Those at the top of the military were old men and did remember the horror of the Spanish Civil War in their youth. They had no stomach to repeat this.
Juan Carlos saved Spain.
I don’t understand this article but I HATE EDGE and I WILL NOT use it.
The Edge engine had nothing to do with why I didn’t use it. I had no knowledge, even, of the relative quality of the Edge engine. The reason I avoided it is the same reason i avoided Safari, even though may principal platform is MacOS: Portability across multiple operating environments.
I never use Edge but it seems that Chrome has so weird issue that I sometimes cannot reach the Citrix server to do some work at home. Edge always works, weird.
I don’t think Yes had Microsoft in mind when they did ‘Close To The Edge’..
But then why they thought it would be great to replace a real pos Internet Exploder with an even crappier pos Edge - there has to be something in the water in Redmond..
To quote the actor Sal Basiglio, acting as an Indian in the movie “The Frisco Kid”, when he looked at a Jewish rabbi’s torah, “I’ve read every word and didn’t understand a thing”.
Same for much of this article. It was informative but I don’t have the computer knowledge to translate it.
I liked Windows 7, have 8 and it sucks, will probably get 10 with a new computer.
I like Internet Explorer. It works. Remember Netscape. It worked. Got some old 5-1/2 floppy disks right next to my foot. They once worked (no port any more).
However, since I’m stuck with Microsoft whatever, how does the Chromium engine effect my every day typing - nothing fancy, just articles, tables, and emails, and should I care?
Thanks from out in computer left field.
If Microsoft was going to surrender on the browser engine, then they should have done it a long time ago and kept the Internet Explorer name. Now they’ve lost the browser business.... probably permanently... to Google.
Edge sucks. Chrome takes up too much space. I like IE.
I only use Chrome for utilizing Farcebook and Twitter, that's it. I use Palemoon for everything else, including my finances. I only use IE11 for when I have to do something that will only work on that browser.
I’ll just stick with “Duck Duck Go”, thanks anyway...I’ve had excellent results with it.
I use Chrome and Firefox. Also Opera which has a great free VPN feature which is useful at times for getting past paywalls.
Firefox has much better bookmarking than chrome. While chrome renders graphics and videos more smoothly than Firefox and with less of a draw on memory and CPU...
You may have guessed... I go to task manager a lot to peer at mem and cpu usage.
Microsoft's "Teams" office application, a group collaboration tool in the genre of Skype (which they also bought back in 2011), is actually a web-stack (JS/CSS/HTML) packaged using 'Electron'. Electron uses the Chromium engine.
Which goes to explain, at least somewhat, why it's so slow and twitchy. < G!>