Honestly it's uwp that makes edge a much better browser for laptops. It's extremely efficient for battery life and power. I honestly want other companies to make uwp apps because they're amazingly good for laptop battery life.
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Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10
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Honestly it's uwp that makes edge a much better browser for laptops. It's extremely efficient for battery life and power. I honestly want other companies to make uwp apps because they're amazingly good for laptop battery life.
It makes sense in a lot of ways for Microsoft to do this with the amount of desktop apps being built in Electron.
Microsoft will pump resources into the Chromium Project which although maintained and controlled is still open source. It is possible Microsoft make their own fork of the rendering engine like Google forked Web Kit to Blink, Microsoft could fork Blink to their own project.
As it currently stands Chrome is more resource and performance heavy than Edge or Safari. Microsoft's priority will be to make their Chromium browser as efficient as Edge is.
It does leave Firefox as the only major browser vendor that isn't working on a WebKit base which make it more important than ever for enforcing standards on the web.
Microsoft will pump resources into the Chromium Project which although maintained and controlled is still open source. It is possible Microsoft make their own fork of the rendering engine like Google forked Web Kit to Blink, Microsoft could fork Blink to their own project.
As it currently stands Chrome is more resource and performance heavy than Edge or Safari. Microsoft's priority will be to make their Chromium browser as efficient as Edge is.
It does leave Firefox as the only major browser vendor that isn't working on a WebKit base which make it more important than ever for enforcing standards on the web.
Microsoft confirms that Chrome extensions will run on new Edge browser
"That sounds like the bad guys teaming up." :p
"That sounds like the bad guys teaming up." :p
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This is why I use Edge. Looked into some battery life tests and it consistently nabbed first place.
Another example is the built-in Windows 10 video app which absolutely crushed VLC in battery life tests wherever I looked.
I agree! I've been using it on my personal computer as my work from home browser and I really like it. It won't replace Firefox as my main browser, but I'll use it as a secondary browser.
It is, but I'm not moving from Firefox. However, I keep all the major browsers installed, and this is quite a bit better than the original Edge browser, not to mention Internet Explorer. Finally Windows has a truly modern browser built-in with all the bells and whistles you want in a browser.
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