Microsoft Edge as Fast as Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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978 words · ~4 min read
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for a long time Microsoft's veneer excuse me venerable Internet Explorer
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was a lot like the cheeseburger on the menu at your local Chinese joint it was
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always just kind of there even though nearly everyone opted for Chrome Firefox
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or kungpow chicken instead and could you really blame them most popular
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alternatives to iie offered faster performance better compatibility and
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security and more useful features that left Internet Explorer in the dust so
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after seeing ie's usage share drw po off
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for 12 straight years Microsoft decided
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it was time to abandon ship and build an entirely different browser called Edge
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and even though the edge logo is suspiciously similar to that Infamous e
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Microsoft has promised a faster browsing experience behind the scenes that plays
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nicely with modern websites but talk is cheap how is Microsoft going to deliver
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on its assurances of a better browser well similarly to how a game uses a
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rendering engine to make pretty pictures appear on your screen browsers use their
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own rendering engines to show you coherent web pages instead of a wall of
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garbled junk and Microsoft has developed an allnew engine called Edge HTML which
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was originally developed from ie's Trident engine but has the old IE code
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removed which Microsoft says will make modern web pages load faster and more
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accurately and speaking of making things faster Edge also no longer supports
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ActiveX or brows helper objects those old Internet Explorer plugins that were
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notorious for being super susceptible to malware that could slow down your PC
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direct you to malicious websites or worse but not all the improvements are
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just behind the scenes stuff Edge also
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has a new user interface that promises to be less clunky than IE for starters
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Microsoft has finally decided it's not a
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good idea to crowd together browser tabs and the address bar on the same line and
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has reserved the entire top of the screen for tabs like other modern
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browsers Edge has also moved to a single menu scheme for changing options instead
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of the messy internet options box that has been with us since freaking Windows
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95 and I guess well that's all finding Dandy Linus hold on a second it sounds
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like Edge is purely playing catchup with the other browsers here does it actually
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offer anything that I won't get with chrome or Firefox as a matter of fact
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yes Edge is trying to set itself apart
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from its competitors by offering additional functionality without the
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need for thirdparty browser extensions something that let's face it most
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non-power users are not really using so
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namely you can annotate and mark up web pages just by clicking a button at the
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top of the screen then you can share them or save them to one note pretty
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cool stuff and additionally Edge features integration with Cortana the
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new Windows 10 personal assistant making it easy to quickly look up information
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about any topic you see on a web page uh use voice controls or even get things
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like driving directions or dinner reservations but despite all these
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improvements is Edge really ready for Prime Time although the new rendering
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engine should certainly deliver better performance our tests have shown it
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still legs behind Chrome and Firefox in a number of benchmarks and it still
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isn't as compliant with newer web standards like HTML 5 as the competition
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and although a simpler UI will be a welcome change for many power users may
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find themselves frustrated at the rather lean options in the settings menu I mean
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even something as simple as the default download directory cannot be changed
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without a registry tweak so let us know in the comments can you live without
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right click paste and go and give Edge a chance as long as it means IE is finally
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going the way of clippy or are you just going to stick with the other thirdparty
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browsers that you already know and love
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speaking of sticking with things we know and love we certainly talk about fresh
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books a lot on this channel and we're going to do it again today it's designed
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for freelance workers or small businesses and it makes invoicing
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getting paid and tracking your expenses easier with a simple online tool so all
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those little details about you know the hours worked on this job or your cash
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flow or other little accounting stuff like that that normally you'd have to
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get home at the end of a long day and sit at your computer and work on no no
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that's all on your mobile device and it has a bunch of other great features as
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as well so you can show the full history of invoices you can check and see if
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your client has viewed the invoice and they can even pay you via credit card
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through fresh books so if you're Your Own Boss you should be using stuff that
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makes you feel like a boss check it out now at freshbooks.com tequ and don't
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forget to enter Techquickie in the how did You Hear About Us section so thanks
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actually have our full video over on the lineus tech tips Channel either out
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already or coming very soon where we uh go through the in-depth performance
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benchmarks that we ran on edge before shooting this video so check that out