However much it wants to, it can’t consign it to the Recycle Bin for good. Microsoft has a bit of a problem with Internet Explorer. Now it’s quite different and it’s perfectly possible to use as a day-to-day browser. Initially, when we tried out an early version of Microsoft Edge back in January (it was originally codenamed Project Spartan), it was basically unusable as a browser because so many features hadn’t been finished and some web pages didn’t work properly. Microsoft has promised further development on Edge over the coming months.

However, you can now rearrange your Favourites, as well as add different search providers to Edge, for example – features that weren’t available at first. Microsoft Edge also matches the speedy Google Chrome for JavaScript performance – JavaScript is the programming language behind many dynamic web pages.Īs well as Extensions, there are several other things missing from the version of Edge that shipped with Windows 10. We’ll explain more on that shortly, but the benefit is that the engine powering the browser can be faster. That means that some old websites won’t work properly. One reason for its speed is that it’s focused purely on modern web page standards rather than support for older pages.

The main reason for the fast performance is that Microsoft has developed a new ‘layout engine’ for processing (or ‘rendering’) web pages called EdgeHTML. As well as the ‘light’ default theme of Microsoft Edge, you can alternatively paint it black

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