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Edge is based on chromium

• MBCook 3y ago
  Right. Edge used to have its own rendering engine, but they ditched it. At this point it’s the same as Brave and some other browsers. From a rendering point of view, it’s 100% Chromium. All of its customizations are above the engine, at least as far as I know.
• charcircuit 3y ago
  But it has a good chunk of market share which is was being talked about.
  • MBCook 3y ago
    Did it get very big? I know it obviously never challenged Chrome but did it ever get up to like 10% before the switch? Even if it didn’t it was an independent browser that could have been a competitor until they gave that up.
    • charcircuit 3y ago
      It currently is still a competitor. The switch of an internal browser engine doesn't make two products no longer competitors.
      • MBCook 3y ago
        I’m speaking from the point of view of who is in charge of implementing web standards. If 80% of people used Edge but it was still based on Chromium, Google would still have a stranglehold on the web. It could be a four way tie between Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Opera. Google would still have the power.
        • charcircuit 3y ago
          >Google would still have the power. None of the forks are required to accept every change Google makes or make their browsers a perfect clone. Edge, Brave, and Opera are all in control of their own destinies in making the best product they can.