But the team now has a stable platform in place to start innovating on, so we’ll likely see a stronger focus on new features going forward. While Microsoft seems quite excited about Collections, I admit that it’s not something I’ve found all that useful for my own workflow. What it doesn’t have yet is a killer feature or something that really makes it stand out from the rest. Like all modern browsers, Edge features various options for protecting you from online trackers, support for extensions (both from the Chrome Web Store and Microsoft’s own extension repository), reader mode, the ability to switch profiles and pretty much everything else you would expect.
I’ve never found that to be much of a roadblock to using Edge as my main browser, but your mileage may vary. It’s still missing a few features, most importantly the ability to sync your browser history and extensions between devices. That will quickly change, though, as Edge is now on a six-week release cycle.Īs I’ve said throughout the development cycle, Edge is a competent Chrome challenger and I have no hesitations to recommend it to anybody who is looking for a browser alternative.
Some of the most interesting forward-looking features, like Collections, Microsoft’s new take on bookmarking, are still only available in the more experimental pre-release channels.
If you are on Windows 10, you can also wait for the automatic update to kick in, but that may take a while.īecause all of the development has happened in the open, with various pre-release channels, there are no surprises in this release. You can now download the stable version for Windows 7, 8 and 10, as well as macOS, directly. Right on schedule, Microsoft today released the first stable version of its new Chromium-based Edge browser, just over a year after it first announced that it would stop developing its own browser engine and go with what has, for better or worse, become the industry standard.
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