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It is, but there is the question of how much effort MS puts into it. So far it seems to be that it is not so much "built on" as it is a low effort reskin.
by stonemetal12 5y ago
It is, but there is the question of how much effort MS puts into it. So far it seems to be that it is not so much "built on" as it is a low effort reskin.
- nvrspyx 5y agoI don't know much about the internals of Chromium, but I'd say it's more than a "low effort reskin". Not including the UI changes like vertical tabs and collections, there's also a lot of underlying changes/improvements made like PlayReady support (for e.g. 4K Netflix playback), better scrolling support, tracking protection, Windows-specific improvements, memory/performance improvements, PDF annotation, web capture, etc. Granted, Microsoft are contributing most of these underlying improvements back upstream to the Chromium project, so the gap between them will remain small. Second to Google, Microsoft is the most prolific contributor to the Chromium project, so I think "low effort reskin" is a bit of an undermining to their efforts. With all of that said, Google is still the gatekeeper, Microsoft's contributions don't really solve the Chromium browser monopoly, and Microsoft is being really scummy with their push for Edge (i.e. Windows and Bing annoyances about it). I'd still prefer to have more independent browser options like Firefox.
- PascLeRasc 5y agoIt's so funny that Microsoft copied Chrome's left space between the edge of the screen the the first tab, but they didn't realize that Chrome still counts that as part of the tab (https://imgur.com/a/hI2XrcX https://imgur.com/a/hI2XrcX). So if you try to quickly mouse over to your leftmost tab on Edge, you'll end up clicking the menu section instead and un-fullscreening it.