Many of the old-school design elements of the original Edge browser are gone, replaced with rounder edges and cleaner interfaces. Sure, the arrow buttons and other icons on Edge and Chrome look slightly different, but the URL/search bar is mostly the same, and the symbols for extensions and add-ons are in the same place. Right-click to the right of the tabs, and you’ll see the same tabs menu. In short, if you switch from Chrome to Edge, you’ll notice very little difference in your everyday browsing. One noticeable difference, though, is in the default search engine and homepage. Edge defaults to Microsoft’s Bing, naturally, while Google defaults to Google’s search engine. The similarities continue in performance.įortunately, either can be switched at will and is only a temporary nuisance.Įdge and Chrome are both built on the Chromium open-source browser using the Blink rendering engine, and as such, they’re more similar than they are different. Granted, Chrome narrowly beats Edge in the Kraken and Jetstream benchmarks, but it’s not enough to recognize in day-to-day use. Microsoft Edge does have one significant performance advantage over Chrome: Memory usage. Chrome used to be known for how little RAM was used, but these days, it’s become bloated. In one test, Edge used 665MB of RAM with six pages loaded while Chrome used 1.4GB - that’s a meaningful difference, especially on systems with limited memory. If you’re someone who’s bothered by how much of a memory-hog Google Chrome browser has become, Microsoft Edge is the clear winner in this regard.
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