Microsoft will use chromium for its Edge browser

The browser market was in the hands of Microsof, Google and Mozilla with Edge, Chrome and Firefox, the competition between them was the main incentive to expand the functionality of browsers and the development of modern web technologies in the last 10 years.
Unlike Firefox which is open source, Chrome which is based on Chromium which is open source Edge is proprietary, it has a patented EdgeHML engine that promised to render Internet pages faster, in addition to making the browser more secure, fast and light .
In addition, the Firefox and Chromium browsers are open source because extensions can be added and going one step further with Chromium is that new technology is created based on this, for example, famous desktop applications such as Spotify and multi-platform software frameworks. like Electron. It is well tested, works well and has a lot of active development.

Microsoft’s plans for Edge to be a popular browser is not what happened, in a short space of time it was shown with many errors, flaws and problems that made Edge users in Windows 10 choose to put it aside. Despite being pre-installing on Windows, only 4% of users use it, Chrome being their favorite.

It is often said if you can not with the enemy then join it, because it is what Microsoft used Chromium for its web browser, inheriting the benefits such as the compatibility of extensions.

In addition Microsoft announced that it plans to become Chromium’s «biggest contributor»

Mozilla issued the alert that there will be a dominant browser and that this will have the same problems as when Internet Explorer was the most used browser, the lack of innovation and the lack of compatibility with web technology, not taking into account other browsers.

Microsoft announced how it will be based on Chromium it is possible that it will be released for other operating systems, for Mac and for Gnu / Linux.

thursday 6 december 2018 With Plans to Switch to Chromium, Could Microsoft Edge Come to Linux?