Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

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Post by rattt » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 1:33 AM UTC

Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
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Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

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Post by atonse » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 1:59 AM UTC

Sad news. Chrome is an energy hog on the Mac compared to safari. It probably won’t be as tied to the OS APIs as Edge was.

Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

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Post by mooman219 » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 2:00 AM UTC

This has been in the works for a while! A number of Microsoft employees have been making contributions to Chromium too. I hope to see Chromium's performance and battery impact on Windows to improve with this decision which is great for those using the OS.

It sounds like Microsoft really just wants a platform to route people into using Bing and service ads on the new tab page, which they're more than capable of doing on a reskin for Chromium. From a cost standpoint it makes sense to use the existing tools available.

For developers, it's one less platform to target.

Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

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Post by nwah1 » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 2:19 AM UTC

Very much hope Edge is open sourced.

Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

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Post by kainazzzo » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 2:30 AM UTC

nwah1 wrote: post #4

Very much hope Edge is open sourced.

It would be nice so then someone could fix the bugs with gitter.im

Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

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Post by vtesucks » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 2:32 AM UTC

On the one hand developers have one less engine to worry about. On the other if it becomes a chromium monoculture then Firefox loses.

Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

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Post by kainazzzo » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 2:32 AM UTC

Great news! I really tried to like Edge, and used it exclusively for a few months. It just couldn't do the job.

Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

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Post by Despegar » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 2:44 AM UTC

And then there were three. Even more reason for Apple to never allow anything but WebKit on iOS. This monoculture isn't good for the web.

edit: Guess the pro-monoculture folks flagged this.

Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

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Post by mcny » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 2:44 AM UTC

vtesucks wrote: post #6

On the one hand developers have one less engine to worry about. On the other if it becomes a chromium monoculture then Firefox loses.

On the front page, I saw another headline that said Firefox desktop market share is below nine percent.

Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

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Post by microcolonel » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 2:53 AM UTC

atonse wrote: post #2

Sad news. Chrome is an energy hog on the Mac compared to safari. It probably won’t be as tied to the OS APIs as Edge was.

> Chrome is an energy hog on the Mac compared to safari.

It seems that with more interest in that, it's likely to improve.

> It probably won’t be as tied to the OS APIs as Edge was

What makes you say that? Seems like they could integrate it more or less exactly the same way.