6 reasons to give the new Microsoft Edge a try

Announced by Microsoft later in 2015, Edge was the company's bet to win back users, who stopped using Internet Explorer due to various problems and few features of the old browser. Thus, available for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, this program has become the default browser for the company's operating system.

Despite having a new interface and improved features compared to its predecessor, the truth is that Microsoft Edge was not popularized as expected and still had occasional flaws, mainly because it had its own navigation engine, which presented incompatibilities with some sites. That way, in 2019, Microsoft decided to drastically change Edge and try, once again, to gain new users. Here are some reasons to give this new version of Microsoft Edge a try.

Lower memory consumption

Anyone who uses Chrome or even Firefox and has low RAM on the machine, must have gone through some slowdowns and even crashes. In turn, although Microsoft Edge uses the Chrome engine, in tests conducted by Digital Look, the new version of Microsoft Edge does not consume so much resources from its machine.

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Better support for extensions

One thing that was rather annoying about the first Edge was that all of its extensions were only available on the Windows Store, the Windows 10 app store. Now, besides having an online shop, like some browsers for their add-ons, Microsoft Edge also supports Chrome extensions.

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For that, however, you need to enable a compatibility option, which is not bad or a complicated process, especially given the number of useful extensions that Chrome has in its collection.

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New interface

When you take a quick look at Edge, you may find that its interface has remained the same since its launch in 2015, but that's not exactly true. Although his appearance for browsing remains pretty much the same, now Microsoft's browser has its category-separated settings to more easily find and enable or disable a feature.

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Internet Explorer Mode

Despite being less and less used, the truth is that there are still a few websites that are designed to run bug-free only on Internet Explorer. Not to let these people down, while not yet having the feature implemented in the beta version we tested, Microsoft Edge has an Internet Explorer compatibility mode to be able to open such sites.

Chrome Features

As you have already noted from the other descriptions above, Microsoft Edge, for now relying on the Chrome engine, ends up with some of its functions. With this, for example, it is possible to access Edge Flags through the address “edge: // flags”.

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Here, as in Chrome, you will find some features that are not enabled by default, but which can be very useful for everyday use.

Greater integration with other platforms

As with some other browsers, if you use Microsoft Edge on more than one platform, such as your PC and mobile phone, you can sync some data such as websites accessed, passwords saved, and so on.

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For now, Microsoft's browser is available for Android, iOS (iPhone system) and Mac OS.

Official release is near

As of the date of this issue's publication, Edge has not yet had its final version released, and it is scheduled for January 15, 2020. Still, for now, you can already use the new Edge when downloading of their test versions.

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