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microsoft released its edge browser originally known as project spartan in

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2015 which wow was that only four years ago

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feels like a lot longer than that you know what they say time flies when

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you're having fun anyway out of the gate edge brought

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some interesting features to the table like a reading mode and the ability to

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easily mark up and share web pages but it was also slow and memory hungry

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and it lacked support for the thousands of helpful browser extensions that you

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could get on chrome and firefox so while it peaked at 20 market share

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among Windows 10 users in august of 2015

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its subsequent slide over the following months and years indicates that most of

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those people were probably just using it to download chrome

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so then in late 2018 after four long

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years of progressively more desperate tactics to get people to please

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please just try it please microsoft decided that rather than trying to fight

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chrome they would enter the belly of the beast becoming chrome then destroying it

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from the inside just kidding i mean that might be what

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they're doing we actually don't know but what we do know is that there's a

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freaking chromium-powered edge browser out there

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in the wild and we spent the last couple of days finding out whether it's the

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next big thing or the browser equivalent of two kids stacked on top of each other

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wearing a trench coat so they can get a ticket for your pg-13 task bar

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for the uninitiated chromium is google's free and open source software project

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that forms the foundation of google's mainline chrome browser builds which by

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contrast are not open source so what that means is that anyone

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including microsoft can take that foundation and potentially build their

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own browser on top of it and actually microsoft is far from the first company

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to do this some of the more well-known third-party chromium-based browsers

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include opera brave amazon silk and

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samsung's aptly named internet now the new chromium-powered edge is not fully

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launched yet but microsoft is publishing developer builds as they get closer to

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the full rollout and that means that we can try it

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right now so we're going to be using the Windows 10 version but this is kind of cool the

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new edge will actually be available on Android iOS and even macOS

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so let's get started when you open a new tab you get some

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layout options focused has some frequently visited

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sites and a simple search bar unfortunately powered by bing

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but fortunately with the option to change it to google search duckduckgo or

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ask jeeves or whatever and the next up is inspirational layout which adds the

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pretty microsoft background of the day to the mix or the informational layout

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which adds an msn style new section on your first boot up of the app it will

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probably prompt you to import your chrome data including bookmarks or

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favorites your saved passwords your autofill entries and your browsing

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history but if you're not 100 sure about

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the switch you can also do that in the settings later once you do that it actually begins to

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feel eerily like you're using a microsoft skinned version of chrome

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though right down to the menu layouts so most of the settings that you'd expect

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to find are there but like it's weird because they might

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be located in a different sub menu it's like using a chrome from an alternate

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universe where like the snap never happened what is it

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spoilers for spoilers you had more than a year to

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see the first part

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perhaps the weirdest part though of the new edge experience is installing chrome

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extensions now by default the new edge only allows you to install a small

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number of microsoft approved edge

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insider add-ons but in true chromium

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fashion you can allow the installation of any extension from the chrome web

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store by simply clicking allow extensions from other stores

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with that said there's no guarantee it'll work lastpass for example wouldn't

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let us sign in on edge now thankfully there was an edge version already

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available and that one worked fine we're just saying that whether it's for

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security reasons or other compatibility reasons microsoft says that the list of

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official add-ons will increase as they go through and verify them so it's not

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that they're taking a walled garden approach they just want to make sure that the user experience is okay

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so then if you were like amped to switch from chrome to edge we just want you to

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keep in mind that you might not have all of your

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chrome features exactly as you like them

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also making matters worse if you are one

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of the edge faithful hi

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microsoft's chromium-based reboot might be a bit of a bummer for you too because

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a fresh start means that the current build is even lacking some of the

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features of old edge so these include setting aside tabs

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style of support oh that's kind of rough for you surface

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pro users out there and an official dark mode although you can at least enable a

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beta version of that last one in the flags now the edge team has promised

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that those features will return and they've also committed to new ones like

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easily shareable tab collections a three-tiered privacy control system and

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best of all an internet explorer compatibility mode i'm actually not

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joking about this that is a godsend not only for nostalgic masochists but also

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for corporate and it workers that are stuck using legacy apps that just

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won't run on modern browsers and the edge engineers say they're not

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only creating new features for their own browser they're also submitting

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suggestions to the chromium open source project which might influence other

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chromium-based browsers and even chrome itself

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for any of this actually matter though edge has to perform as well as chrome

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firefox or the others and

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actually given edge's reputation as the browser it probably has to perform even

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better so we ran chrome new edge old

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edge and firefox through a handful of benchmarks

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html5 test for pure html5 performance

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basemark for a mix of javascript and graphically intense workloads and

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webexpert for a wide sampling of tasks intended to mirror everyday browser use

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and i gotta say for a fledgling browser the new edge held up all right it kept

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up pretty well with chrome although both of them lost to firefox and webexpert

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and it beat both the old edge and firefox in basemark now it did have the

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worst pure html5 performance out of our

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tested browsers but then we ran the test again using https instead of http which

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brought its score up to a tie with chrome so then at least from a pure performance

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standpoint the new chromium-based edge is immediately a big step up from the

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old edge and extremely close to chrome in terms of what you can expect from

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day-to-day browsing so with a well-performing feature-rich

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extension-heavy alternative to chrome on the table other than firefox of course sorry

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firefox fans you guys are still a thing um we should just all be celebrating

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then right like competition is good right

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not so fast so we've talked a lot about what a

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chromium-powered edge browser means for the user experience

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but there's another huge question that the existence of this

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chimeric concoction brings up is google about to fundamentally own the

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ability to set their own standards for

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how the internet is developed because here's the thing depending on where you

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get your stats chrome has been sitting at around 65 to 75 global desktop

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browser market share with edge around five and the supposedly defunct internet

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explorer still hovering around five to ten percent

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now firefox and safari still have healthy enough user bases but think

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about this once this new edge actually launches and

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edge and internet explorer users hopefully switch over as much as 85

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percent of the internet could be dominated by browsers based on google

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owned software that gives google an unprecedented level

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of control over the way the internet will continue to change

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and while google has developed many standards and protocols that have

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benefited all web users like the speedy protocol that formed the basis for http

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2. they've also been responsible for some shady

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locked ecosystem type stuff in the past like changing youtube so that it ran

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worse on non-chrome browsers wait i'm just trying to think was that

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before or after they removed don't be evil from their corporate motto can you

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remember yeah i mean either so the thing is all of that could be much ado about

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nothing and for their part google has said they remain committed to the open

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web and will continue to work with others in the web browser ecosystem but

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we still thought it was important to not just try out new edge in this

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video but to also point out that if you

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subscribe to the age-old wisdom about absolute power and absolute corruption

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and all that you might want to at least give firefox

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