While Microsoft Edge, in its original form, was originally exclusive to Windows 10, rebuilding on Chromium has helped open the browser to more platforms. The announcement put Microsoft Edge in league with other Chromium-based browsers like Vivaldi and Brave.Īfter over a year of development work and public beta tests, Microsoft, via The Verge, is formally launching the new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium.
At the time, the reason given was for Edge to be able to offer “improved compatibility” over the existing EdgeHTML browser engine.
Late in 2018, Microsoft confirmed rumors that the company was rebuilding its Edge browser on Chromium, the open source base for Google Chrome. Today, the new version of Microsoft Edge, based on Google’s Chromium, has been officially launched on Windows and macOS. Microsoft Edge, the web browser that replaced Internet Explorer with the release of Windows 10, has been given a dramatic overhaul in the last year or so to be rebuilt on the same Chromium source code that Google Chrome is based on.
