Windows 10: Microsoft Chromium Edge might come with dual rendering engine support

Microsoft Chromium Edge official preview version is believed to be just around the corner and recently an early build of the browser leaked online revealing some of the features. Microsoft Chromium Edge will retain the features from the current browser and as well as Chrome.

For instance, Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge sports an interface similar to both Chrome and current Edge. It also comes with support for the dark mode, profiles tab, wide range of extensions, picture in picture mode and more.

Just like Google Chrome, Microsoft Chromium Edge also has a flag menu which will allow users to test early and upcoming features.



At the moment, the flags menu has a limited number of Edge-exclusive feature. Interestingly, there’s also a flag to enable support for Internet Explorer’s web rendering engine in Chromium Edge.

The flag is titled ‘Enable IE Integration’ and it has a description stating that it enables hosting of Internet Explorer in a tab.

After enabling the flag, the more tools in the menu gains a new option – host tab in Internet Explorer. It’s not clear as to show this feature will work, but it appears that this will allow users or developers to run webpages using the Internet Explorer’s MSHTML rendering engine.



In Windows 10 October 2018 Update or preview builds of Windows 10 19H1, the feature is not working as intended. Clicking on ‘Host in IE tab’ throws an error stating that version of Internet Explorer installed on the PC is not ready to work with Microsoft Edge integration yet.



Microsoft is expected to officially launch the stable preview builds of Chromium Edge in the coming weeks and more detailed could be shared on the day of release.

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update Microsoft Edge browser

No, Microsoft Edge is not out of date. It gets updates regularly through Windows Update.

The problem is that relatively few websites test on Microsoft Edge because so few people use it. The rendering engine that Microsoft Edge uses - what makes the page look the way it looks - renders web pages differently than other web browsers do, and because
so few people use Microsoft Edge, there's little incentive for websites to code a version of their web pages that is optimized for Microsoft Edge.

But all that is about to change in a big way. Microsoft is ditching Edge's native rendering engine - EdgeHTML - and replacing it with the Blink rendering engine used by Google Chrome. (Actually, Blink is the rendering engine used by the Chromium Project
that is the basis of Google Chrome.)

Once this happens, Microsoft Edge will render web pages the same way that Google Chrome does, so web pages will look and work much better on Edge.

For now, you can switch to Google Chrome, for your bank at least, and when Microsoft Edge changes you can switch back.

It will be very interesting to see what Microsoft does with Edge after Blink is in place. This could be a win for Microsoft and a win for the Chromium project, since Microsoft will now be contributing code to the Project.

 

Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser


I use Edge as my main browser on home desktop and on all of my windows laptops and tablets. Never had much problems with it on release it was quite barebone with gimmicky features like painting on pages but now its quite feature complete at least for me.
It's sad that Edge didn't get much traction.
Moving new browser to chromium rendering engine means few things but mostly it means that Microsoft is giving up on browsers.
Moving to chromium will cut development cost, as they can stop developing their own edge rendering engine.
So IMHO motivation behind this move is not to get more people to use New Edge with chromium, but to cut cost on product that didn't get enough market share.