{"id":710015,"date":"2020-01-30T17:40:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T22:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=710015"},"modified":"2020-01-30T17:40:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T22:40:53","slug":"browser-review-microsofts-new-edgium-chromium-based-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=710015","title":{"rendered":"Browser review: Microsoft\u2019s new \u201cEdgium\u201d Chromium-based Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<ul class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"gallery-item-content\">\n<div class=\"gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0-edge-setup-1-980x823-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n          This is the first thing you see when you fire up the installer for the new Edge browser.                      [credit:<br \/>\n                        Jim Salter                        ]\n                  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before much longer, every new Windows PC is going to have a new default browser: it will still be named Microsoft Edge, but it&#8217;s a completely different browser than the old version. Cue the jokes now about &#8220;the new browser everyone uses to download Chrome&#8221;\u2014but we&#8217;re not sure that so many people will actually bother downloading Chrome anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The old Microsoft Edge was a completely in-house Microsoft design, proprietary from the ground up. It wasn&#8217;t necessarily a bad browser, but it never really took off\u2014by the time Edge became a thing, most of the people who cared about their browsers were so sick and tired of Internet Explorer they&#8217;d long since moved on to either Firefox or Chrome; and the people who\u00a0<em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> care much about their browsers frequently ended up finding the old Internet Explorer and setting it as their default when they discovered that &#8220;the big blue E&#8221; on their taskbar didn&#8217;t work with legacy IE-only websites and apps.<\/p>\n<p>The new Edge isn&#8217;t entirely\u2014or even mostly, so far\u2014a Microsoft effort, though. Edge is now based on the open source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chromium.org\/Home\">Chromium<\/a> browser, which is the underpinning of Google Chrome and several other, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/pictures\/all-the-chromium-based-browsers\/\">lesser-known<\/a> browsers as well. It should seem immediately familiar to seasoned Chrome users\u2014and it even allows installing extensions directly from Chrome&#8217;s own Web store. It&#8217;s not hard to imagine a lot of Chrome users simply not bothering to replace it when they see how familiar it is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1650098#p3\">Read 13 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1650098&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=Ril9EAQdEu4:iwWglk8xjwA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=Ril9EAQdEu4:iwWglk8xjwA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=Ril9EAQdEu4:iwWglk8xjwA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=Ril9EAQdEu4:iwWglk8xjwA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1650098\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Browser review: Microsoft\u2019s new \u201cEdgium\u201d Chromium-based Edge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first thing you see when you fire up the installer for the new Edge browser. [credit: Jim Salter ] Before much longer, every new Windows PC is going to have a new default browser: it will still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=710015\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":710016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-710015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/710016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}