r/Windows11 • u/Key-Improvement-3709 • Jul 12 '24

Discussion Wait, why is Microsoft Edge actually pretty good?

I have recently switched to Edge on my low-end Windows 11 laptop. For about 3 months, I have been testing several browsers to see which is best for my measly 4 gigabytes of RAM. I avoided edge like the plague due to social convention, but finally tried it this week, and fell in love. I was previously unaware just how many good features it has, such as being compatible with the chrome webstore. 8/10, would reccommend.

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u/hceuterpe Jul 13 '24

In terms of what's still supported, you're basically looking at only 3: Chromium based, Firefox based and WebKit based. Short of Safari (WebKit based) and obviously Firefox itself, most other browsers people can name these days is Chromium based. Edge, Brave, Opera, Samsung Internet, Vivaldi, Silk, etc.

So considering damn near everyone is just releasing browsers based off Chromium, this is a bit of a harsh description...

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u/ahumeniy Jul 13 '24

Isn't Chromium based on Webkit too?

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u/picastchio Jul 13 '24

It's HTML engine (Blink) was hard-forked from from Webkit and has now diverged very much to classify as such. OTOH V8 JS engine was their homegrown tech.

Trivia: Wekbit itself was forked from KDE's KHTML engine. The user-agent is a good tidbit of history.

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u/Ezmiller_2 Jul 13 '24

No, it's lazy programming. I'm glad they left the trident engine with 10.