Highlights of the evaluation version of Microsoft Edge

By the end of 2018, Microsoft surprised everyone by announcing that it was converting its Microsoft Edge browser from a dedicated browser to a browser based on Google's open source Chromium platform, on which rely the most popular Web browsers such as Google Chrome and Firefox. From Mozilla.

In April, Microsoft authorized Edge to access its users via two preview versions: the Developer version, the weekly updates, and the Canary version, which receives updates daily. Their experience was therefore risky and could lead to unstable performance. This was not important for non-developers.

Last week Microsoft released the first beta version of the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge Beta Web Browser, which provides a more stable user experience for all supported versions of Windows and MacOS.

You can download the browser evaluation version through the Microsoft Edge Insider (Microsoft Edge Insider), previously launched by Microsoft to allow users to discover the browser and keep up to date.

How to use the new version of Microsoft Edge evaluation:

Once you have installed and launched the beta, you will be asked to choose from three new tab layouts: Focused, Inspired, and Informative.

The targeted layout is just a blank page with a search bar and some commonly used sites. An inspiring layout adds a background image drawn from the Bing search engine, while an informative layout provides an appearance similar to the older EDGE version, combining all the layouts. previous pages and adding a Microsoft folder.

Main Features:

• The main advantage of the new Edge is the ability to run most Chrome store extensions, which paves the way for a lot of custom features that were not available in the original version browser. Of course, Microsoft also has its own range of Edge Extensions, but its store is not as powerful.
• Sign in with multiple accounts and sync across devices, like in Google Chrome.
• The Collections feature allows you to gather text, images, and information from the Internet in one newspaper and transfer information to other services.

disadvantages:

On the other hand, you will not find some of the features of the original version of EDGE, such as the playlist, which allowed you to save articles and the ability to annotate pages. Navigator.