![]() While Chrome is available on all platforms, and Edge is available on most Edge doesn’t yet have a Linux client. If you’re on a lower-powered device, Edge’s reduced system resource requirements may make an appreciable performance difference. Chrome is known to be very heavy on RAM usage, and while Edge isn’t lightweight, it isn’t as RAM hungry. To achieve this performance Edge does use fewer system resources. The difference isn’t enough to notice in day-to-day browsing, however, so it’s not too much of an issue. In two different browser benchmarks, Speedometer2.0 and Speed-Battle, both browsers were very similar in performance with Edge having a slight lead. The tracking prevention feature is prominently visible at the top of Edge’s privacy settings. The feature automatically blocks many tracking scripts and is available by default rather than relying on any extensions. Microsoft Edge includes a tracking prevention function that Chrome just doesn’t offer. Nevertheless, the Google product suite is still well-integrated when used on Edge, and Microsoft’s product suite is similarly functional in Chrome. ![]() This means that you don’t have to give up any of your extensions when switching from one browser to the other.īoth browsers integrate well into their respective developer’s product suites. One of the big benefits of Edge now being built on Chromium is that it now supports all of the extensions in the Chrome web store. The interface is very similar between them with the appearance of the right-click menu being one of the few real standout differences. ![]() In terms of specifically loading webpages, it’s hard to tell the two browsers apart. ![]() ![]() Being newly based on the Chromium browser, that Google Chrome is also based on, there are a lot of similarities, but this is not a bad thing. Still, users are switching to Edge and this is because it’s a reasonable competitor to Chrome and Firefox. Part of the uptake is due to the fact that Microsoft pushed the new update to all Windows 10 computers. ![]()
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