Microsoft's Chromium Edge Will Have an Internet Explorer Mode

[AndrewFreedman]

The new version of Edge will behave like Internet Explorer, and will also have a suite of new security features.

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[Dark Lord of Tech]

I have been running the Dev weekly version of Chromium Edge and it's fast.

 

[thebigt42]

The new version of Edge will behave like Internet Explorer, and will also have a suite of new security features.

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Microsoft’s new Edge browser built on Google's Chromium...

Chromium is an open source browser not owned by Google. There are some key differences between Google Chrome and Chromium. First off, Google Chrome is a commercial closed source product made by Google which is based on the open source Chromium project.

 

[alextheblue]

Good, that will make dealing with legacy sites a bit easier. I was interested to see where the new Edge would stand on backwards compat.

 

[cryoburner]

Chromium is an open source browser not owned by Google. There are some key differences between Google Chrome and Chromium. First off, Google Chrome is a commercial closed source product made by Google which is based on the open source Chromium project.

Is this why the first line of the Wikipedia page for the Chromium browser reads...

"Chromium is Google's open-source web browser project."

It's clearly Google's browser. Just because they leave out some licensed plugins and the usual Google spyware doesn't make it an entirely different browser.

And somehow, Chrome (and in turn Chromium) manage to be bloated memory hogs, despite lacking much in terms of features or proper customization options. It's unfortunate that browser developers feel the need to abandon their browsers and replace them with Chromium reskins just to ensure compatibility with a mediocre browser that only became popular due to Google's web dominance. Chrome is more or less today what IE was over a decade ago. Perhaps it's more "secure" than that browser was then, but it's not exactly a great browser, at least for anyone who needs more than the most basic feature-set.

 

[littleleo]

No, not on my computers, no IE and no Edge I don't care what they morph it into.