Today, Microsoft started to send users Windows 10 the new version of Edge browser technology-based Google. Updated viewer faster downloads sites allows multiplayer mode and allows you to connect to the extension created for Chrome.
At the end of 2018, Microsoft acknowledged that a software filling Edge lost the competition Chromium (in addition to Chrome, is under “the hood” Opera Vivaldi, “Yandex.Browser” and several other projects), which she unsuccessfully tried to displace. As a result, it was decided that Edge to be taken from the Google rendering engine of web pages Blink and the V8 JavaScript engine.
Starting today a new version of the Edge “from Chrome inside” is sent to all devices with Windows 10 version 1803 (April 2018 Update) and above. The update is automatically installed via Windows Update (the”update Center Windows”) in the background. To refuse it is impossible, that is, users are actually forced to move to a new program.
with the Exception of business users. In companies, system administrators have the ability to block a forced substitution of the browser by downloading the tool Blocker Toolkit.
an Important feature of the new Edge — connection of third-party extensions for Google’s browser. Add-on can be downloaded either from the Microsoft store and the Chrome Web Store. In the old Edge, this possibility is limited due to the strict policy at Microsoft security.
According to statistics from StatCounter in December of 2019, Google Chrome is the sole leader of the browser market, occupying 63,22%. The second place from Apple Safari (15,76%), third in Mozilla Firefox (4.6 per cent). Edge goes to the 8th place (2,13%), behind even the outdated Internet Explorer (2,27%).
Text: To.Hi-tech
