{"id":265829,"date":"2018-06-25T07:57:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T05:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=265829"},"modified":"2018-06-25T07:58:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T05:58:45","slug":"microsoft-edge-for-android-growing-its-user-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/265829-microsoft-edge-for-android-growing-its-user-base.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge for Android growing its user base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Edge browser is growing its install base on Android devices, although it is still far behind Google Chrome.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.microsoft.emmx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google Play Store<\/strong><\/a>, Microsoft Edge has reached 5 million downloads, which is a new high for it, stated <a href=\"https:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/microsoft-edge-for-android-sets-new-personal-best-with-5-million-installs-521697.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Softpedia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Edge has received mostly positive reviews on the Play Store, and at the time of writing had a rating of just over 4 stars (out of 5) from 22,480 reviews.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, Google Chrome also had a rating of just over 4 stars, but from 9.4 million reviews.\u00a0Chrome has been downloaded over 1 billion times in the Play Store.<\/p>\n<p>Edge was fully launched for Android and iOS in March 2018, and includes features like &#8220;continue on your PC\u201d &#8211; allowing users to open a web page from their phone on their PC.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/265307-the-new-chip-for-tiny-drones-and-robots.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The new chip for tiny drones and robots<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Edge browser is growing its install base on Android devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":160574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[30102],"class_list":["post-265829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft-edge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265859,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265829\/revisions\/265859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}