Edge now includes a memory saving feature that can put tabs that aren’t being used to sleep. If you open too many, your browser performance can suffer. The problem with opening a lot of tabs is that each one uses a chunk of your working memory. Tabs have become such a power option in all browsers, but Edge allows you to use them vertically, which is really useful.

In order to coax new users to give it a try, Microsoft has developed some interesting features such as vertical tabs, sidebar search, web capture, smart copy and comprehensive tracking prevention options. They released the new Edge browser in January of 2020 which allowed it to use the huge library of add-ons already developed for other popular Chromium-based browsers like Chrome and Opera. In 2019, Microsoft decided to rebuild Edge on the open-source Chromium platform, which would improve its compatibility and extend its availability to macOS, Android and iOS users. The initial reviews of the browser showed much better performance than Internet Explorer, but it suffered from some compatibility issues and lacked all of the user features that made Chrome and Firefox so popular. In order to be relevant, Microsoft began developing a completely new browser called Edge, which they launched in 2015. Google released its Chrome browser in late 2008 and also began to chip away at Microsoft’s lead and actually overtook Internet Explorer as the most popular by 2012.īy this time, the Internet had changed drastically and the code used to write Internet Explorer was old, slow and full of security issues. Internet Explorer held an 80%-90% market share from 2000 to 2008 until the emergence of Firefox as a credible alternative started cutting into their dominance. In Microsoft’s case, if they can get you to use their browser, they might be able to get you to start using their search engine Bing as well. Your behaviors and activities are extremely valuable to these companies, as we have all come to learn.

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