[image] Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on... Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium. Hot off the rumor mill…2 days ago! …

[image] prg9: Is this the real reason you left Microsoft, you didn’t wish to be associated with Google? :wink: I was joking. But what insider info do you have from your former MS colleagues and comrades? Did you have to leave for them to finally seriously consider and realize you were right?…

Haha. Let me provide a little bit of background, and the usual disclaimers that this is all just my personal take on it yadda yadda yadda. I was a PM on the Web Platform team that is in the center of all this. The Web Platform Team is the one that works on EdgeHTML and Chakra. My area of focus with…

[image] senocular: …but people don’t necessarily target standards, they target browsers and what works in them. This is what puts a lot of the non-webkit implementations at a disadvantage. Between Safari on iOS and Chrome on Desktop and Android, a really large part of the internet browsing au…

Great response @kirupa . Thanks for your previous involvement in all this. :wink: [image] kirupa: Electron Do you think after acquiring GitHub and now this announcement, that it will provide faster improvements concerning performance of Electron based apps? Maybe even now allowing the merging…

Regarding the Electron piece, any improvements that are made in making it faster and lightweight would be nice. There isn’t a whole lot I can share that isn’t already public - one of the benefits of a truly open source project haha. Development (and planning for it) is done in the open. As for whe…

Yeah true concerning Electron, but you were formerly an insider and with the recent acquisition I figured it was worth a shot. [image] kirupa: Developers rarely tested for Edge [image] kirupa: Partly due to developers not testing in Edge (see above) and partly due to us not supporting th…

I don’t want to divulge anything that you can’t find online :stuck_out_tongue:

[image] prg9: @ everyone Curious, so based upon those statements do most developers whom post here worry about supporting Edge? Were those whom do so wasting their time? Generally, yes. But MS had said at some point in time (and I’m having trouble finding a reference to it, especially among…

[image] kirupa: For example, less than .5% of this site’s visitors use Edge. I think @REB_412 was one of the few :stuck_out_tongue: I want to make a correction here. I do not normally use Microsoft Edge as my everyday browser. I used to use Opera but about a month ago I switched over to Chr…

I updated my original post with your clarification :slight_smile:

Edge to use Chromium!

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krilnon December 11, 2018, 2:55am 18

I enjoyed reading this thread but have found myself surprisingly vacant of an opinion on the matter.

Here’s a related thread from 15 years ago:

Topic		Replies	Views
I'm liking this browser random	54	334	February 22, 2003
Power Corrupts All? random	32	329	June 15, 2003
IE 8 Beta random	0	132	September 9, 2008
Mozilla vs IE Uncategorized	22	401	December 16, 2003
Google's Browser on the way Uncategorized	0	80	September 2, 2008

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