Screenshots of Microsoft’s Chromium-Based Edge Browser Leaked Online

[Porthos]

This hints at Microsoft intending to restrict the number of extensions which will end up being compatible with the new Edge, allowing themselves and their users to avoid being flooded by the huge numbers of addons already present in Google's Chrome Web Store.

Instead, if the final builds of the Chromium-based Edge will look the same and the Microsoft Edge Store will still be in, Microsoft will most probably cherry-pick the extensions it considers safe and useful enough to be installed through the Microsoft Store.

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[fencepost]

I'm very disappointed by this whole shift. Edge was bad at first, but I'm pretty sure it's gotten a lot better over time. I'm also all in favor of having at least 3 independent browsers/rendering engines/scripting engines/etc. I'm not counting IE in that, it's basically a dead browser walking and isn't getting any updates except security fixes.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Yeah having everything be Chrome or Mozilla is going to suck... because now that basically means the last independently developed renderer is forever going to be bowing to the others.

But Chromium is open source too... ugh...

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

why do you guys feel that way? wouldnt it be so much easier if you only had to worry about building a website compatible with a single browser engine?

 

[fencepost]

Yeah, it was always such a joy with the IE6 monoculture.

Here's a question: If there's only ever one implementation of them that matters, why have standards? Isn't the standard just the documentation for that one implementation?

 

[SAFCasper]

why do you guys feel that way? wouldnt it be so much easier if you only had to worry about building a website compatible with a single browser engine?

I agree and I think this is a good thing. Having to optimise a site for Chrome, FireFox, Edge and IE must be a huge time-waster. With Edge moving to Chromium and IE now officially branded as "Not a browser. A compatibility tool" we are down to 2 engines to optimise on.

Another benefit is Microsoft will be contributing to the open-source Chromium project. Any new developments, improvements, features etc they come up with can then be implemented straight into other Chromium based browsers.

I believe the main benefit for Microsoft is cross-platform compatibility. Being Chromium based it should run on OS X, Linux, Android, iOS etc with minimal effort required. Just increased the target market drastically.

 

[MatthewB]

I never really liked IE 11, nor Edge's bookmarking system. It just felt awkward to me. Now that MS is going with Chromium, I look forward to a better system. Hopefully one that can use both.

Thanks.