{"id":288782,"date":"2018-12-07T08:02:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T06:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=288782"},"modified":"2018-12-07T08:02:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T06:02:38","slug":"microsoft-confirms-its-edge-browser-will-be-built-on-chromium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/288782-microsoft-confirms-its-edge-browser-will-be-built-on-chromium.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft confirms its Edge browser will be built on Chromium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2018\/12\/06\/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>confirmed<\/strong><\/a> that it is rebuilding its Edge desktop browser on the open-source Chromium project.<\/p>\n<p>Chromium is the same web rendering engine which powers Google&#8217;s Chrome browser, and will replace Microsoft&#8217;s EdgeHTML rendering engine which is currently used within the Edge browser.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports of this change <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/288342-microsoft-will-replace-edge-with-chrome-based-browser-for-windows-10-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surfaced earlier this week<\/a><\/strong>, and Microsoft has now confirmed it will change its browser over to Chromium, with the new browser also set to launch on MacOS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, we want to make the web experience better for many different audiences,&#8221; Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People\u00a0using Microsoft Edge (and potentially other browsers) will experience improved compatibility with all websites, while getting the best-possible battery life and hardware integration on all kinds of Windows devices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The overhauled version of Microsoft Edge will launch as a standalone executable across Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said it expects to have a preview build of its new Chromium-based browser ready in early 2019.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/288342-microsoft-will-replace-edge-with-chrome-based-browser-for-windows-10-report.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft will replace Edge with Chrome-based browser for Windows 10 \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has confirmed that it is rebuilding its Edge desktop browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":217834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1567,37194,42782,15725,123,11187],"class_list":["post-288782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chrome","tag-chromium","tag-development","tag-edge","tag-microsoft","tag-web-browser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288782"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288786,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288782\/revisions\/288786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}