Major changes coming to Microsoft Edge. The built-in default browser for Windows 10 hasn’t proved to be very popular. Edge accounts for just over 5% of Internet traffic compared to Google Chrome’s 67%.
Microsoft decided to rebuild Edge from the ground up into a totally new browser. A browser based on Chromium, the same platform used for Google Chrome.
The new and hopefully improved Edge has been available for preview for quite some time, but it will finally be available to everyone starting on January 15 of 2020.
With the changes comes a brand new logo. One that looks a lot less like the old Internet Explorer logo.
One of the big changes is an Internet Explorer compatibility mode that will allow you to use web apps and sites that only work on Internet Explorer without switching browsers.
If you’d like to get a head start and download the newer version for Windows or Mac, you can click here to try it out.
We sure are strange as humans!! lol. I had a hard time breaking away from IE because that is all I knew. Towards the end of many people using IE I would always hear different tech comments about it not being very good. So then Chrome came out. When I start anything new. I take learning how to navigate on it seriously. I dig in and start exploring how things work. So I got attached to Chrome at that time. The tech in our area kept telling me that Chrome wasn’t good to use because of security flaws and their browser updates. So then I decided to go ahead and try Edge. By that time of course I was also switched from WIN 7 to 10. At least I am good at navigating and understand how 2 bowsers work. I have to say until Edge shows its “new self” Chrome I think is faster. Things load faster. And sometimes there are websites that won’t function with Edge. With that being said, I think it would be good to say, its good to have more than 1 browser for that reason. ? Anyway, thank you Cyn for all of your help and since today is Christmas I hope you have a blessed day.
Huh! I just noticed in my previous comment that the time of the post is wayyy off! ??? I’m wondering why that would be? It’s only 11:46 here.??? CST
They list posts at GMT.
Edge has been convenient and fast, but it saves too much trash. It takes CCleaner a long time to dump all the stuff Edge thinks we might want to look at again. I hope the new version changes that operational method.