Chromium Edge for Windows 10: The new features you can expect

[The AchieVer]

Chromium Edge for Windows 10: The new features you can expect

 

 

Microsoft has migrated its Edge browser to Chromium, the underlying platform used by Chrome, and some other browsers. Right now, Microsoft is very much focused on the fundamentals and new features are missing.

 

Microsoft is working on a number of features for its browser. For example, the software giant is considering adding back Cortana integration and many other classic Edge features.

 

In the Reddit thread, Microsoft highlighted its future plans for the Edge browser on Windows 10 and other platforms. In the same discussion, Microsoft confirmed Internet Explorer won’t be removed from the OS and it also reiterated its desire to build Edge browser for Linux desktop.

Reading List, Cortana and other classic Edge features

 

Microsoft has already added the reading mode to Chromium Edge and it looks like the company is also working on Cortana integration.

 

The original Edge or classic Edge comes with Cortana integration that allows users to submit search queries, ask questions and more without having to leave the browser. Cortana is located on the sidebar within the browser itself and it can render web results or definitions from Bing.

 

This feature is missing in new Edge, but it could arrive in future as per a comment from Microsoft’s Edge engineering team.

 

“We’re in the process of adding Reading List, integration with Cortana, and many of the other Edge features you know and love. For more details, I’d recommend watching our session from Build where we discuss this topic in much more,” Microsoft said in a post.

 

Microsoft also has plans to introduce the other exciting features that we currently have in old Edge.

Fluent Design

 

Unlike old Edge, the new Chromium browser lacks Fluent Design elements and uses rounders corners to improve its look.

 

Microsoft Edge team is closely working with the Fluent Design team and you may soon notice more Fluent components in the browser.

 

“We love Fluent and we work closely with the Fluent team. We’re incorporating more and more Fluent components as we evolve the look and feel of the browser,” the company said.

Web notes

 

Microsoft Chromium Edge also lacks web notes, a feature that has been useful to users with Surface and similar 2-in-1 devices.

 

It looks web notes will eventually arrive on new Edge, but Microsoft hasn’t shared the ETA yet.

 

“We know users derive a lot of value from the Notes feature but we also know our current implementation may not be the right solution. We’re working on this and conducting user research to ship an implementation that addresses users’ unmet needs,” Microsoft said.

Touch input improvements

Microsoft’s classic Edge has always handled touch inputs better than Chrome or other browsers, but these improvements are missing in new Edge.

 

Fortunately, Microsoft is also planning to improve touch input controls in the new Edge and Chromium as well.

 

“We are working on improving touch input controls in the new Edge and, better yet, we’re contributing those changes upstream for the benefit of all Chromium-based browsers,” Microsoft noted in another Reddit post.

Collections

 

Microsoft again confirmed that Edge will be getting Collections, a new feature that is designed to organize and store the information we come across while browsing the websites.

Better scrolling, support for streaming platforms

Microsoft once again reiterated that it is working on multiple scrolling improvements for the entire Chromium platform.

 

Microsoft says the Windows engineers have spent a lot of time to optimize classic Edge for smooth scrolling (a feature missing in Chromium browsers).

 

Microsoft is collaborating with Chromium Edge to understand the current scrolling structure in Chromium. The company has plans to introduce smooth touchpad, touch, mouse wheel, scrollbars scrolling experience in Chromium.

 

When asked about support for 1080p Netflix streaming, Edge engineer revealed that the browser supports both Microsoft PlayReady and Google Widevine DRM systems.

 

“With PlayReady, Edge is the only hardware-backed content protection available in any browser on Windows which gives content providers the confidence they need to deliver 4K premium and 1080p content,” the engineer wrote.

 

 

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[steven36]

5 hours ago, The AchieVer said:

In the Reddit thread, Microsoft highlighted its future plans for the Edge browser on Windows 10 and other platforms. In the same discussion, Microsoft confirmed Internet Explorer won’t be removed from the OS and it also reiterated its desire to build Edge browser for Linux desktop. 

While people on  Linux   laughed about it , why would they want to port all there software over to Linux   like this give people the ability  to stream 4k  Netflix on Linux?  Skype was nice on Linux tell Microsoft bought it and replaced it with a half-working web app. Linux have many choices for Web Browsers  why we want to use  there stuff on Linux ? If we wanted to use it we would just use Windows ! EDGE  is not Open software so many Linux users want even be interested .

 

Next thing  you know they will port Office  and the ability to run Win32 legacy software too Linux and kill Windows because 99%  of Win32 legacy software they make no money on it and it cost Microsoft a lot of money to keep making sure it works on every version of Windows  .  That's why Closed OS have Walled Gardens so they can charge them a fee for being in there store and Microsoft have failed to get the masses to adopt there's  like Apple and Google had lot's of success with. Also is the fact Windows is the only OS still around that cost money , When you buy Apple devices OS upgrades are always free and  Google Android is even free to the vendor . Linux is free unless you want to buy Enterprise support . Still Cent OS is free and the same thing as Red Hat if you want  maintain it yourself.  If they killed windows and let the Linux community  maintain   all legacy software it would free Microsoft of the burden of having to pay for maintaining it and they can concentrate on selling things that do make them money .

 

Next version of Windows 10 will have a built in Linux Kernel how many normal windows users know anything about Linux? They don't unless there devs that have to make apps on all platforms .Because real Linux users  use Linux . So there putting in useless features  for 95% of Windows users trying to get Devs off Mac OS. When they fail at that like every  idea they had for Windows  since they made Windows 8  they will abandon it as well.   There as bad as Ubuntu for having crazy ideas that want work and caving when they lose a ton of  Money . The difference is Ubuntu learns from there mistakes and Microsoft don't .

 

 

EDGE itself is a failed idea  Microsoft had  so they switch to Chromium Blink like Opera did  .No blink web browser ever had any success much except for Google  Chrome  . On Linux  Open source Chromium is more successful than even Google  Chrome. Only thing Google offers that Chromium don't is DRM  for streaming sites witch other open source browsers have . Firefox/Waterfox have DRM  and now Brave and Open Source Chromium Blink fork have DRM as well.  But to date no Linux Distros ship with any browsers but Firefox and Open source Chromium depending on the Distro you choose  if you get Blink or Gecko  .When you install Google Chrome on Ubuntu  Linux  you have to grab a deb file  from Google and unless you blacklist it they add they add auto updates to your system .  

 

No Chromium based browser  not even Google  have Hardware Acceleration in Linux meaning streaming HD videos in browsers increases your CPU usage and, if you use a laptop, it gets quite hot and the battery drains very quickly. Browsers in Linux run off pure processing power so the only way to get around it is to use special Chromium (VA-API Patched PPA Builds)  So unless Microsoft plains to do something no other browser vendor does by default and enable Hardware Acceleration 4k will never work good in there browser on Linux , This why I watch most my YouTube videos in FreeTube app , Chromium (VA-API Patched PPA Builds) and most other Videos I stream in MPV  , SMPLayer and KODI I can go to most any torrent site  or ddl  site and  add  the link in my download service  and stream it in any of my  players by adding the link with Hardware Acceleration . I have addons  that add the video to mpv  from streaming sties and my download service. Linux is not for lazy people. 

 

Here is  Chromium with the VA-API patch see its enabled

 

 

Here is Brave  see it wont work and is disabled

So  what will Edge have to offer on Linux that any of the others don't give you ? None of them give you Hardware Acceleration in Linux if it was not for

one dev saiarcot895 we would not have it at all.

 

Now Fedora and OpenSuse are now are using the vaapi patch in their official chromium and soon Ubuntu will have a snap version with vaapi patch (it's in beta now) and no closed sourced browsers so far have supported it yet on Linux !