Microsoft Chromium Edge - Now Available to Download

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Jan 2020 at 14:37

melmac said:
Installed this today and I like it. Much better than the old Edge.

Yep I am using it across all devices now with all other browsers now officially removed. Way to go MS.

Orcvader · 17 Jan 2020 at 16:18

metachi said:
i've installed the new edge, how do i sign in with google account like chrome?

You can't. It may be using the Blink engine like Chrome but there's nothing Google related in it at all, you'll need to use a Microsoft account.

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Jan 2020 at 16:20

Orcvader said:
You can't. It may be using the Blink engine like Chrome but there's nothing Google related in it at all, you'll need to use a Microsoft account.

Microsoft is working along side Google to be able to log in with a Google account very soon. Not yet though but it's coming.

Orcvader · 17 Jan 2020 at 16:25

mrbell1984 said:
Microsoft is working along side Google to be able to log in with a Google account very soon. Not yet though but it's coming.

Isn't it still under discussion? It's not planned yet but the developers are open to more feedback about it from users: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/top-feedback-summary-for-january-8/m-p/1097194

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Jan 2020 at 16:34

Orcvader said:
Isn't it still under discussion? It's not planned yet but the developers are open to more feedback about it from users: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/top-feedback-summary-for-january-8/m-p/1097194

Ah that's interesting it might not come if that's the case. Looks like more people don't want it integrated. Funny thing is most of them is saying because of privacy when Microsoft harvests data from Windows 10 anyway ha ha! so funny.

Could you imaging cross browser syncing, how awesome would that be! Chrome/Firefox sync. Means you would only need 1 account for all the services but the question is who would it be hosted with!

Glanza · 17 Jan 2020 at 16:42

Impressed with it so far, do wonder due to it being built on Chromium if it'll have the correct flag for the handful of sites that state you need Chrome to be able to use it.

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Jan 2020 at 16:48

Glanza said:
Impressed with it so far, do wonder due to it being built on Chromium if it'll have the correct flag for the handful of sites that state you need Chrome to be able to use it.

I have just checked my user agent and this is the following info I get inside the browser.

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.117 Safari/537.36 Edg/79.0.309.65

Orcvader · 17 Jan 2020 at 17:06

mrbell1984 said:
Could you imaging cross browser syncing, how awesome would that be! Chrome/Firefox sync. Means you would only need 1 account for all the services but the question is who would it be hosted with!

There was xBrowserSync which I tried when I was fed up with FF Android (Moved to Kiwi as it supported extensions) but wanted to keep using the desktop version, but last time I tried it, it had a lot of sync issues. Haven't tried it recently as Kiwi no longer supports the extension but seems development on it has stalled.

Glanza said:
Impressed with it so far, do wonder due to it being built on Chromium if it'll have the correct flag for the handful of sites that state you need Chrome to be able to use it.

The user agent will disguise itself as Chrome if it detects a site that doesn't like the default Edge user agent: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/04/21/new-microsoft-edge-may-change-user-agent-automatically/

It's a bit of a mess but in future that will change with v83 which will unify all Blink based browsers with a universal user agent: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-phase-out-user-agent-strings-in-chrome/

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Jan 2020 at 17:14

Orcvader said:
There was xBrowserSync which I tried when I was fed up with FF Android (Moved to Kiwi as it supported extensions) but wanted to keep using the desktop version, but last time I tried it, it had a lot of sync issues. Haven't tried it recently as Kiwi no longer supports the extension but seems development on it has stalled.

It would be much better if it was integrated though and not with 3rd party add ons.

Midlife Crisis · 17 Jan 2020 at 17:31

Just swapped to this and I am liking it, so far

kevcampbell · 22 Jan 2020 at 14:37

If I install this will it replace the other Edge browser as I like using that for .pdf files

ALD · 22 Jan 2020 at 16:05

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kevcampbell said:
If I install this will it replace the other Edge browser as I like using that for .pdf files

The release version will replace the the Edge browser but the new .pdf reader is similar.
The builds from here never used to but that might have changed.

opethdisciple · 23 Jan 2020 at 15:42

I found this to be a little bit unstable.... when I had lots of tabs open.

Also the chromium version is slightly different to Chrome.

chroniclard · 23 Jan 2020 at 16:01

Been using it quite a bit for everyday work and seems quite good.

wiiija · 23 Jan 2020 at 16:12

Its an excellent browser I was using the dev build for a while, only issue was it started crashing on the emby dashboard so had to go back to chrome, think I'll try it again now its released though.

snips86x · 23 Jan 2020 at 16:16

It uses about 1/2 the RAM compared to FF when the same 4 pages are open (both browsers have hardware acceleration disabled) and power consumption isn't as good as FF either.

b00merang69 · 23 Jan 2020 at 17:29

wiiija said:
Its an excellent browser I was using the dev build for a while, only issue was it started crashing on the emby dashboard so had to go back to chrome, think I'll try it again now its released though.

I have never had that on Edge Chromium Beta or Dev builds since day one, but my Emby is/was always the Beta branch.

Buffalo2102 · 23 Jan 2020 at 18:03

I thought I'd install this and give it another whirl. It's early days but the first thing I've noticed is that colours, especially reds, look washed out in Edge compared to Firefox.

I installed a theme but I don't think it's due to that. I'll keep tweaking but would be interested if anybody else sees the same.

wiiija · 23 Jan 2020 at 19:24

b00merang69 said:
I have never had that on Edge Chromium Beta or Dev builds since day one, but my Emby is/was always the Beta branch.

Yeh it was dev and annoying as hell, but other than that, great browser.

Tute · 24 Jan 2020 at 01:59

It's actually a decent, fast browser but i'm guessing that the flip side to accepting Chromium as your renderer is that you basically open your PC up to Google's data harvesting methods?