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So why has Microsoft decided to switch to Chromium?

If you want to run automated tests,you can leverage BrowserStack Automate to run all your Selenium test cases on the Edge browser-on multiple devices-at the same time. Web developers need to test their websites for compatibility on Chromium Edge -among other things.īrowserStack has partnered with Microsoft to give you unlimited access to Edge for Live testing. Users who switch to or update the Edge browser are going to expect seamless, bug-free experiences on every website they access. Switching to Chromium puts Microsoft Edge on par with Google Chrome in terms of functionality, so user adoption and market share are expected to increase. This update, codenamed ‘Project Anaheim’, is a landmark shift for Microsoft, from the EdgeHTML engine to the Chromium engine. Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its Edge browser, Edge 79, on January 15, 2020. *The MacBook Air Retina uses an ultra-low-power (aka, lower performance) dual-core "Amber Lake" Intel dual-core i5-8210Y processor.Microsoft Edge - Chromium Edge Browser 79 If you have a fast laptop with lots of memory (16GB) and a fast processor (a newer Intel quad-core processor), you probably won’t be affected, i.e., you may not notice the issues described above.īut if you keep a lot of browser tabs open and active and use (1) an older laptop or (2) a new low-cost laptop (under $700), or (3) a new ultra-thin laptop with an ultra-low-power Intel processor with 8GB or memory or less, you’re probably going to have a problem. It’s fixed by closing tabs in both Chrome and Safari. The problem isn’t fixed by closing tabs in Chrome. I’ve discovered that in some cases this can bring the MacBook Air almost to its knees, slowing it down enough that I have to stop using it temporarily. And I typically stream cable TV news in one of the tabs in either Safari or Chrome.

I typically have about a dozen tabs open in Chrome and multiple tabs open in Safari – by necessity (i.e., I don’t leave tabs open unless I’m using them). And invariably my MacBook Air slows down.

So much so that I get warnings at the top of Safari about web pages using too much memory. Yes, Safari tends to be more efficient on the Mac but even Safari gets sluggish when I have more than a few tabs open and simultaneously have tabs open in Chrome.