Microsoft is Building a Chromium-powered Web Browser That Will Replace Edge on Windows 10: Report (windowscentral.com)

Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium, news blog Windows Central reported Monday. From the report: Microsoft's Edge web browser has seen little success since its debut on Windows 10 back in 2015. Built from the ground up with a new rendering engine known as EdgeHTML, Microsoft Edge was designed to be fast, lightweight, and secure, but launched with a plethora of issues which resulted in users rejecting it early on. Edge has since struggled to gain any traction, thanks to its continued instability and lack of mindshare, from users and web developers.

Because of this, I'm told that Microsoft is throwing in the towel with EdgeHTML and is instead building a new web browser powered by Chromium, a rendering engine first popularized by Google's Chrome browser. Codenamed Anaheim, this new web browser for Windows 10 will replace Edge as the default browser on the platform. It's unknown at this time if Anaheim will use the Edge brand or a new brand, or if the user interface between Edge and Anaheim is different. One thing is for sure, however; EdgeHTML in Windows 10's default browser is dead.

Comments

Re:open sourcery FTW

[idontusenumbers]

At least part of Edge is already open source:
https://github.com/Microsoft/C...

Re:I feel bad for Microsoft

[Gravis Zero]

I feel bad for Microsoft. They have been trying very hard to support all the standards.

Don't because those assholes only implement standard when they have no other choice. Microsoft has a long history of trying to undermine standards with purposely shitty support.

Re: open sourcery FTW

[Tough Love]

KHTML is a fork of webkit

Wrong, it's the other way round.

Re: Really? That won't help.

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess we still haven't forgiven or forgotten IE6. Any MS web browser should be treated with extreme suspicion.

Re: Time to move fro IE to Edge

[cyber-vandal]

Not to mention SharePoint 2013/2016 still needs to run in IE10 mode on IE11.

Re:Really? That won't help.

[AmiMoJo]

Brave has advertising spyware built in. https://brave.com/about-ad-rep...

They gotta make their money somehow.

Re:Won the war failed the objectives.

[Rockoon]

Back in the late 1990's Microsoft won the browser war against Netscape

Microsoft didnt win. Netscape lost. It was a do-it-yourself mugging.

Netscape committed suicide.

Re:Won the war failed the objectives.

[DontBeAMoran]

Then Firefox grew where it started to be too big, that is where Google Chrome came in (at around the same time Safari came in for Apple also based on WebKit)

I don't know which parallel Universe you come from, but Safari pre-dates Chrome by more than five years. Also, Google used WebKit, Apple's fork of KHTML, until Chrome version 27. Starting with Chrome 28, it used Blink as its rendering engine which is Google's fork of WebKit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
January 7, 2003, at Macworld San Francisco, Steve Jobs announced that Apple had developed its own web browser, called Safari. It was based on Apple's internal fork of the KHTML rendering engine, called WebKit.[9] The company released the first beta version, available only for Mac OS X, later

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The browser was first publicly released on September 2, 2008 for Windows XP and later, with 43 supported languages, officially a beta version,[33] and as a stable public release on December 11, 2008.

Re:Won the war failed the objectives.

[Pfhorrest]

This security problem brought in a new lightweight browser called Firefox. Which supported the standards much better then IE, was faster and didn't use the stuff that allowed people to break into the computer. Then Firefox grew where it started to be too big, that is where Google Chrome came in (at around the same time Safari came in for Apple also based on WebKit)

A couple important missing bits to note in your history here:

- Firefox is powered by Mozilla which was also the core of Netscape Navigator, so Firefox was basically the revenge of Netscape.

- WebKit was created by Apple (as a fork of the KHTML renderer from KDE) specifically to power Safari (all of the OSX/OpenStep/NeXTSTEP libraries are named something-Kit), and then Google adopted that for Chrome, so Safari isn't really just a side note, Safari is essentially the ancestor of Chrome.