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Microsoft Launches First Chromium Edge Builds (venturebeat.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today released the first Edge builds based on Google's Chromium open source project, the same browser that Google's Chrome is based on. Microsoft is even adopting the same naming scheme that Google uses for Chrome development: It is debuting Canary (preview builds that will be updated daily) and Developer builds (preview builds that will be updated weekly) today. They can both be installed alongside the old Edge as well as each other. You can download these builds now from the Microsoft Edge Insider site.

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  1. Canary Edge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hello! I wish to register a complaint about a bird I bought in this very boutique not an hour ago!

  2. Why do I want this... by DigitAl56K · · Score: 2

    ... when I can just install Chrome? ;)

    1. Re:Why do I want this... by MatthiasF · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Or more importantly, Firefox.

    2. Re:Why do I want this... by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 4, Informative

      ... when I can just install Chrome? ;)

      Because it will probably be the default on all future releases of Microsoft Windows and you'll want to test your web apps for compatibility.

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      Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
    3. Re: Why do I want this... by MatthiasF · · Score: 3, Insightful

      How about you not develop for stuff not widely available? You know, like using standards and not creating another IE6 scenario.

  3. Re:Why would I want Microsoft Chrome? by bobstreo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What differentiates this from regular Chrome?

    All the monitoring, tracking and advertising of Chrome, now with the added shiny telemetry of MicroSoft! and probably Bing search.

  4. It syncs with your microsoft account. by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Informative

    It appears if you login with your microsoft account, it will sync your windows, microsoft, chrome, (maybe firefox) accounts, syncing your passwords, payment info, addresses to your microsoft account if you login in.

    Mine loaded my chrome profile, then offered to "sync" it with my microsoft account.

  5. Re: Chrome is the new IE by cyber-vandal · · Score: 2

    Open source, cross-platform, regularly updated, no ActiveX, and standards-compliant. Nothing like IE in fact.