Microsoft Edge Performance Evaluated

An anonymous reader writes: Now that Windows 10 is close to launch, Anandtech has put Microsoft's new browser, Edge, through a series of tests to see how it stacks up against other browsers. Edge has shown significant improvements since January. It handily beats Chrome and Firefox in Google's Octane 2.0 benchmark, and it managed the best score on the Sunspider benchmark as well. But Chrome and Firefox both still beat Edge in other tests, by small margins in the Kraken 1.1 and HTML5Test benchmarks, and larger ones in WebXPRT and Oort Online. The article says, "It is great to see Microsoft focusing on browser performance again, and especially not sitting idle since January, since the competition in this space has not been idle either."

Comments

Ad blocking?

[Mark4ST]

I wonder how easy it will be to block ads with Edge, and prevent tracking users. If I can't do that, I can't use Edge. The internet is no place for advertising.

Re:Error in the summary

[Actually, I do RTFA]

According to the people at MS, they regularly test the most popular 500-1000 sites. You have to optimize for something, after all.

They also focus on standards compliance.

Re:Is Edge going to be portable to non Windows?

[spire3661]

Come on. IF you look at my post history you can see i have been slamming MS for 15 years and even I think they are turning the ship. OneDrive, Office and Cortana on Android would have been unthinkable for MS 10 years ago.