Microsoft reveals all the Google things it removed in its Chromium Edge browser

[zoran]

Microsoft just released preview versions of its Chromium-powered Edge browser today. If you’ve downloaded it to test it, you’ve probably noticed it’s very stable and performs surprisingly well. It even performs better than Google’s own Chrome browser on Windows 10, despite being built on the same Chromium open-source project. While it’s early days for Microsoft’s new Edge, the company has revealed all of the Google services it has replaced or removed from its new Chromium-powered browser to optimize performance.

Microsoft has removed or replaced more than 50 of Google’s services that come as part of Chromium, including things like ad blocking, Google Now, Google Cloud Messaging, and Chrome OS-related services. Microsoft’s Edge engineering team is due to reveal more about its Chromium work during a BlinkOn 10 keynote tomorrow, and this will include more details on what has been removed and changed over Google’s own implementation of Chromium.

 

MICROSOFT IS WORKING WITH GOOGLE ENGINEERS TO IMPROVE CHROMIUM FOR WINDOWS

Microsoft is also working on ARM support for Chromium, alongside PDF enhancements, battery life improvements, smooth scrolling, editing, layout, dev tools, and web authentication. Developers can help test these changes using daily Canary builds of Edge or weekly Developer versions, and Microsoft is expected to release a more stable beta version soon (with updates every six weeks).

Microsoft also notes that “building Edge on Chromium was a relatively smooth process,” and that it has made hundreds of changes to Chromium to produce its Edge version with more than 300 merges so far. It’s clear we’re only at the starting phase of a Chromium-powered Edge, and Microsoft is also developing versions that will run on Windows 8, Windows 7, and macOS.

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[DKT27]

Topic moved to Software News. As this is not a tutorial or a how to, it suits better here.

[steven36]

Looks lik they would build one for Linux if they was serious  about it  . Since more  people use Linux  on Azure than Mac OS  are Windows , They done a PR post the other week about how the was pushing mobile Chromium Edge browser for Android  and Azure . but fact is  Linux rules the server world not Android  regardless of witch cloud they use AWS have more users than Azure and is powered by Linux too . Google has made  a Linux fork of Google Chrome  for many years witch people on AWS  and Azure VMs  use . Chromium is a bloated  mess  

 

  EdgeHTML could of been much better than Chrome  if Microsoft  had half  the brain Mozilla and Google does and not tried to locked it down like they did IE and made there own extensions  were we could install without using Windows store .  Now they pulled  a Opera and done a Chromium fork it never will be   because we needed another  Chromium fork like we did a  hole in a head. 

 

Brave will most likely be more of a success than  Chromium Edge will ever be because Brave have  Privacy nuts backing it and have a reason to exist . Only thing  Chromium Edge has going  for it is Play Ready DRM  and since it so expensive  to buy hardware  to watch 4k on Windows . Googles Android  has most of the 4k market because you can buy a cheap  Android TV box  and watch 4k for a fraction of what it cost to watch it on Windows .    Microsoft lost the browser wars  with home users when they invented  Firefox  then Google made Chrome and took  there business users too.  No one has yet to be successful from forking someone else's' Browser engine in the history of the internet    ,Forks only have niche user  base at best. 

[Ryrynz]

Removal of ad blocking. Why?

[xpkRAKE]

I have been wondering how ungoogled it was going to be and why this information wasn`t made available much earlier.

 

Maybe more important is how many unwanted google features remain intact....if any.