The legacy version of Microsoft Edge became unsuccessful, due to fewer features of the browser. I used Google Chrome as my default browser and I became to like it a lot. Since Microsoft Edge became Chromium-based, I became to like it. I do like browsers that became Chromium-based. Thank you, Microsoft! Microsoft Edge is so new, newer than ever! Microsoft Edge Chromium Browser which is currently available for macOS in Preview and Canary channel – will soon be available for macOS as a stable version. Edge on macOS tweaks to match the OS conventions for fonts, menus, keyboard shortcuts, title casing, and other areas.

The Chromium engine has allowed for a complete refresh of Microsoft Edge, as the new browser evolved beyond the world of Windows to become a cross-platform application that can also run on macOS and soon on Linux.

Just like Google Chrome, Vivaldi, and other Chromium-based browser, Microsoft Edge can now serve as the main driver on more than just Windows 10. Both Windows 7 and 8.1 are also supported, and Microsoft is now at work on bringing the browser to the world of Linux too.

But expanding beyond the boundaries of Windows 10 isn’t the only result of Microsoft Edge embracing the Chromium engine. This new approach also allowed Edge to evolve substantially with new capabilities, including support for Google Chrome extensions, and many other new features.

Microsoft Edge On Mac

And Microsoft has tried an approach that makes so much sense for Windows users. The company retained the familiar look and feature lineup in the legacy version of Edge and brought it to the Chromium engine, thus developing a mix that makes it one of the best browsers currently available.

But the bigger challenge for Microsoft Edge isn’t necessarily to serve as your daily driver on Windows 10, but to actually convince Chrome, Firefox, and Safari users it’s worth a try.

As I see it, a more ambitious plan is to make Apple users sticking with Safari to migrate to Edge, something which for the hardcore fans of the Cupertino-based company is outrageous.

But for many others, it all comes down to using the best browser around at a certain time.

Right now, Microsoft Edge is just as good as Google Chrome, if not actually even better, so Mac users have no reason not to give it a try. While Safari itself is a pretty advanced browser, many choose it because it’s the native choice. Others go for Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, both of which have been around for a long time on Macs, and now are rather reticent to giving a try to Microsoft Edge.

Microsoft, however, is fully committed to delivering a very refined experience regardless of the platform. The company maintains the browser with several development channels, including a Canary build that is updated on a daily basis. The Dev build receives updates every week, while the Beta channel is refreshed every six weeks.

“Microsoft Edge for macOS will offer the same new browsing experience that we’re previewing on Windows, with user experience optimizations to make it feel at home on a Mac. We are tailoring the overall look and feel to match what macOS users expect from apps on this platform,” Microsoft said when it released the first build of the new Edge for macOS.

“We are committed to building a world class browser with Microsoft Edge through differentiated user experience features and connected services. With this initial release, we have made several changes to the user interface to align with the Microsoft design language whilst making it feel natural on macOS.”

The good news is that the adoption of Microsoft Edge is already improving, and the first victim appears to be Firefox. According to third-party statistics, while Google Chrome maintains a clear lead in the browser world on the desktop, Firefox is losing ground, and there’s a good chance it’d lose the second place to Microsoft Edge in just a few months.

Edge is expected to improve its market share in the coming months as more people give it a try, and once the browser lands on Linux as well, it officially becomes a full alternative to the likes of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

These release notes provide information about new features and non-security updates that are included in the Microsoft Edge Beta Channel. Archived versions of these release notes are available here.

Note

We've updated the Microsoft Edge Beta Version 89.0.774.18: February 3 release note to reflect the features that landed.

Version 90.0.818.46: April 22

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 90.0.818.42: April 20

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 90.0.818.41: April 16

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 90.0.818.38: April 14

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 90.0.818.36: April 12

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 90.0.818.27: April 2

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 90.0.818.22: March 29

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 90.0.818.14: March 22

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 90.0.818.8: March 16

Feature updates

• Single Sign On (SSO) is now available for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) accounts and Microsoft Account (MSA) on macOS. A user signed in on Microsoft Edge on macOS will now get automatically signed into websites that are configured to allow single sign on with Work and Microsoft accounts (for example, bing.com, office.com, msn.com, and outlook.com).

• Kiosk mode. Starting with Microsoft Edge version 90, we have locked down the UI print settings to only allow the configured printers and “Print to PDF” options. We have also done improvements within the assigned access single app kiosk mode to restrict the launch of other applications from the browser. For more information about the kiosk mode features please go here.

• Printing:

  • New print rasterization mode for non-PostScript printers. Starting with Microsoft Edge version 90, Admins can use a new policy to define print rasterization mode for their users. This policy controls how Microsoft Edge prints to non-PostScript printers on Windows. Sometimes print jobs on non-PostScript printers need to be rasterized to print correctly. The print options are Full and Fast.

  • Additional page scaling options for printing. Users are now able to customize scaling while printing webpages and PDF documents using additional options. The 'Fit to Page' option ensures that the webpage or document is fit into the space available in the selected 'Paper size' for printing. The 'Actual size' option ensures that there are no changes in the size of the contents being printed regardless of the selected 'Paper size'.

• Productivity:

  • Autofill suggestions are extended to include address fields content from clipboard. Clipboard content is parsed when you click on a profile/address field (for example, phone, email, zip code, city, state, etc.) to show as autofill suggestions.

  • Users can search for autofill suggestions even if a form or field isn’t detected. Today if you have your information saved on Microsoft Edge, autofill suggestions pop up automatically and help you save time while filling out forms. In cases where autofill misses a form, or if you want to fetch data in forms that don't typically have autofill (like temporary forms), you can search for your information using autofill.

• Access downloads from a flyout in the menu bar. Downloads will appear in the top-right corner with all the active downloads in one place. This menu is easily dismissible so users can continue browsing uninterrupted, and they can monitor overall download progress right from the toolbar. Learn more.

Policy updates

New policies

Seven new policies were added. Download the updated Administrative Templates from the Microsoft Edge Enterprise landing page. The following new policies were added:

• ApplicationGuardFavoritesSyncEnabled - Application Guard Favorites Sync Enabled
• ManagedConfigurationPerOrigin - Sets managed configuration values for websites to specific origins
• PrintRasterizationMode - Print Rasterization Mode
• QuickViewOfficeFilesEnabled - Manage QuickView Office files capability in Microsoft Edge
• SSLErrorOverrideAllowedForOrigins - Allow users to proceed from the HTTPS warning page for specific origins
• WindowOcclusionEnabled - Enable Window Occlusion
• WindowsHelloForHTTPAuthEnabled - Windows Hello For HTTP Auth Enabled

Deprecated policies

• NativeWindowOcclusionEnabled - Enable Native Window Occlusion
• SSLVersionMin- Minimum TLS version enabled

Version 89.0.774.54: March 13

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 89.0.774.50: March 10

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 89.0.774.48: March 8

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 89.0.774.45: March 3

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 89.0.774.39: February 26

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 89.0.774.34: February 22

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 89.0.774.27: February 12

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 89.0.774.23: February 8

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 89.0.774.18: February 3

Feature updates

• Kiosk mode enables additional lockdown capabilities. Starting with Microsoft Edge version 89, we have added additional lockdown capabilities within kiosk mode to enable customers to get the job done in a productive and more secure experience. Learn more.

• The Enterprise Mode Site List Manager tool will be available in the browser through the edge://compat page. You can use this tool to create, edit and export your site list XML for Internet Explorer mode on Microsoft Edge. You can enable access to this tool as needed through group policy. Learn More.

• Improve browser performance with sleeping tabs. Sleeping tabs improves browser performance by putting inactive tabs to sleep to free up system resources like memory and CPU so active tabs or other applications can use them. Users can prevent sites from going to sleep and configure the length of time before an inactive tab goes to sleep. To keep users in their flow, there are also heuristics to prevent certain sites from going to sleep, such as intranet sites. This feature can be managed with group policies.

  Note

  'Improve browser performance with sleeping tabs' is an update to the February 3 release notes for major version 89.0.774.18.

• Reset your Microsoft Edge sync data in the cloud manually. We are introducing a way to reset your Microsoft Edge sync data from within the product. This ensures that your data is cleared from Microsoft services, as well as resolving certain product issues that previously required a support ticket.

• Improvements to text selection experience within PDF documents. Users will begin to get a smoother and more consistent text selection experience across PDF documents opened in Microsoft Edge starting with version 89.

• Date of birth field now supported in autofill. Today Microsoft Edge helps you save time and effort while filling out forms and creating accounts online by auto filling your data like addresses, names, phone numbers, etc. Starting with Microsoft Edge version 89, we are adding support for another field that you can have saved and auto-filled - date of birth. You can view, edit and delete this information anytime in your profile settings.

• Support for natural language search on the address bar, history search page, and the history hub. Starting with Microsoft Edge version 89, finding an article/website will be easier with the natural language search on the address bar, history page, and history hub. Users can search for previously viewed page content/description/timing (such as 'cake recipe from last week') in addition to titles/URL keyword matches. This feature is limited to a randomly selected group of users who have enabled experimentation. These users are giving feedback to the feature team.

Policy updates

New policies

• BrowsingDataLifetime - Browsing Data Lifetime Settings
• MAMEnabled - Mobile App Management Enabled
• DefinePreferredLanguages - Define an ordered list of preferred languages that websites should display in if the site supports the language
• ShowRecommendationsEnabled - Allow recommendations and promotional notifications from Microsoft Edge
• PrintingAllowedBackgroundGraphicsModes - Restrict background graphics printing mode
• PrintingBackgroundGraphicsDefault- Default background graphics printing mode
• SmartActionsBlockList- Block smart actions for a list of services

Obsoleted policies

• ForceLegacyDefaultReferrerPolicy - Use a default referrer policy of no-referrer-when-downgrade
• MetricsReportingEnabled - Enable usage and crash-related data reporting
• SendSiteInfoToImproveServices|Send site information to improve Microsoft services

Version 88.0.705.56: January 29

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 88.0.705.49: January 20

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 88.0.705.45: January 15

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 88.0.705.41: January 11

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 88.0.705.29: December 21

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 88.0.705.18: December 9

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Feature updates

• Deprecations:

  • Deprecate support for FTP protocol. Support for the legacy FTP protocol has been removed from Microsoft Edge. Attempting to navigate to an FTP link will result in the browser directing the Operating System to open an external application to handle the FTP link. Alternatively, IT administrators can configure Microsoft Edge to use IE Mode for sites that rely on the FTP protocol.
  • Adobe Flash support will be removed. Starting with Microsoft Edge Beta version 88, Adobe Flash capability and support will be removed. Learn more: Update on Adobe Flash Player End of Support - Microsoft Edge Blog (windows.com)

• Authentication:

  • Single Sign On (SSO) now available for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) accounts and Microsoft Account (MSA) on macOS and down-level Windows. A user signed in on Microsoft Edge on either macOS or down-level Microsoft Windows (7, 8.1) will now get automatically signed into websites that are configured to allow single sign on with Work and Microsoft accounts (e.g., bing.com, office.com, msn.com, outlook.com).
    Note: A user may have to sign out and then sign back in if they'd signed into Microsoft Edge in a version prior to Microsoft Edge 88 to leverage this feature.
  • Automatically switch users on macOS to their work profile for sites that authenticate with their work account. Starting with Microsoft Edge version 88, we provide the ability to switch sites that authenticate with a user’s work profile on macOS.
    Note: A user may have to sign out and then sign back in if they'd signed into Microsoft Edge in a version prior to Microsoft Edge 88 to leverage this feature.

• Kiosk mode option to end session. The 'End session' button is now available in a kiosk mode public browsing experience. This feature ensures that browser data and settings are deleted when Microsoft Edge is closed. Learn more about kiosk mode features and roadmap, Configure Microsoft Edge kiosk mode.

• Security and Privacy:

  • Alerts are generated if a user's password is found in an online leak. User passwords are checked against a repository of known-breached credentials and sends the user an alert if a match is found. To ensure security and privacy, user passwords are hashed and encrypted when they're checked against the database of leaked credentials.
  • Automatically upgrade mixed content. Secure pages delivered over HTTPS may contain references images that are served over non-secure HTTP. To improve privacy and security in Microsoft Edge 88, those images will be retrieved over HTTPS instead. If the image is not available over HTTPS, it will not be loaded.
  • View site permissions by site and by recent activity. Starting with Microsoft Edge 88, users will be able to manage site permissions more easily. They will be able to view permissions by web site rather than just permission type. Additionally, we’ve added a recent activity section that will show a user all the recent changes to their site permissions.
  • Increased controls for browser cookies. Starting with Microsoft Edge 88, users can delete third party cookies without affecting first party cookies. Users will also be able to filter their cookies by first or third party and sort by name, number of cookies, and the amount of data stored and last modified.

• Performance:

  • Improve browser performance with sleeping tabs. Sleeping tabs improves browser performance by putting inactive tabs to sleep to free up system resources like memory and CPU so active tabs or other applications can use them. Users can prevent sites from going to sleep and configure the length of time before an inactive tab goes to sleep. To keep users in their flow, there are also heuristics to prevent certain sites from going to sleep, such as intranet sites. This feature is limited to a randomly selected group of users who have enabled experimentation. We are planning to have the sleeping tabs feature enabled by default with Microsoft Edge version 89. This feature can be managed with group policies.
  • Improve Microsoft Edge startup speed with startup boost. To improve Microsoft Edge startup speed, we’ve developed a feature named startup boost. Startup boost makes Microsoft Edge launch faster by enabling Microsoft Edge to run in the background. Note: This feature is limited to a randomly selected group of users who have enabled experimentation. These users are giving feedback to the feature team.

• Productivity:

  • Improve productivity and multi-tasking with vertical tabs. As the number of horizontal tabs grows, site titles start to get cut off and tab controls are lost as each tab shrinks. This interrupts user workflow as they spend more time finding, switching, and managing their tabs and less time on the task at hand. Vertical tabs let users move their tabs to the side, where vertically aligned icons and longer site titles make it easier to quickly scan, identify and switch to the tab they want to open.
  • Auto filling the date of birth field. Microsoft Edge already helps save time and effort while filling out forms and creating accounts online by auto filling user data such as addresses, names, phone numbers, etc. Microsoft Edge now supports the date of birth field which users can save and auto fill. A user can view, edit and delete this information anytime in their profile settings.
  • Improvements to Recently closed in History. Recently closed now keeps the last 25 tabs and windows from any past browsing session rather than just the previous session. Users can select Recently closed in the new History experience to see all the tabs that were open.
  • “Your day at a glance” feature enabled by default. Starting with Microsoft Edge version 88, information workers can benefit from intelligent productivity features on their New tab page (NTP). We offer users signed in with their work or school account personalized and relevant content powered by their M365 Graph. Users can quickly scan their “Your day at a glance” modules to easily track their meetings and recent work as well as quickly launch the applications they want to use.

• PDF:

  • PDF document display in book view (two page). Starting with Microsoft Edge version 88, users can view PDF documents in a single page or in the two page book view. To change the view, click the Page View button in the toolbar.
  • Anchored text notes support for PDF files. Starting with Microsoft Edge version 87, users can add typed text notes on any piece of text in PDF files.
  • Smoother text selection experience in PDF documents. Users will get a smoother and consistent text selection experience across PDF documents opened in Microsoft Edge.
  • View webpages saved as PDF files in the Downloads bar. Users can now view the PDF files generated by setting 'Save as PDF' as the printer destination for webpages in the Downloads bar.

• Fonts:

  • Browser icons are updated to the Fluent design system. As part of our continued work around Fluent Design in the browser, we've made changes to closer align icons to the new Microsoft icon system. These changes will impact many of our high-touch user interfaces, including tabs, address bar, as well as navigational and wayfinding icons found in our various menus.
  • Improved font rendering. Text rendering is improved for better clarity and to reduce blurriness.

Policy updates

New policies

Sixteen new policies were added. Download the updated Administrative Templates from the Microsoft Edge Enterprise landing page. The following new policies were added.

• BlockExternalExtensions - Blocks external extensions from being installed.
• InternetExplorerIntegrationLocalFileAllowed - Allow launching of local files in Internet Explorer mode.
• InternetExplorerIntegrationLocalFileExtensionAllowList - Open local files in Internet Explorer mode file extension allow list.
• InternetExplorerIntegrationLocalFileShowContextMenu - Show context menu to open a link in Internet Explorer mode.
• IntranetRedirectBehavior - Intranet Redirection Behavior.
• PrinterTypeDenyList - Disable printer types on the deny list.
• ShowMicrosoftRewards - Show Microsoft Rewards experiences.
• SleepingTabsEnabled - Configure Sleeping Tabs.
• SleepingTabsTimeout - Set the background tab inactivity timeout for Sleeping Tabs.
• SleepingTabsBlockedForUrls - Block Sleeping Tabs on specific sites.
• StartupBoostEnabled - Enable startup boost.
• UpdatePolicyOverride - Specifies how Microsoft Edge Update handles available updates from Microsoft Edge.
• VerticalTabsAllowed - Configures availability of a vertical layout for tabs on the side of the browser.
• WebRtcAllowLegacyTLSProtocols - Allow legacy TLS/DTLS downgrade in WebRTC.

Deprecated policies

The following policies are deprecated.

• ProactiveAuthEnabled - Enable Proactive Authentication.
• ProxyBypassList - Configure proxy bypass rules.
• ProxyMode - Configure proxy server settings.
• ProxyPacUrl - Set the proxy .pac file URL.
• ProxyServer - Configure address or URL of proxy server.
• WebDriverOverridesIncompatiblePolicies - Allow WebDriver to Override Incompatible Policies.

Obsoleted policies

The following policies are obsoleted.

• DefaultPluginsSetting - Default Adobe Flash setting.
• PluginsAllowedForUrls - Allow the Adobe Flash plug-in on specific sites.
• PluginsBlockedForUrls - Block the Adobe Flash plug-in on specific sites.
• RunAllFlashInAllowMode - Extend Adobe Flash content setting to all content.

Version 87.0.664.55: December 3

Fixed various bugs and performance issues. The following new feature is supported in this release.

• Alerts are generated if a user's password is found in an online leak. User passwords are checked against a repository of known-breached credentials and sends the user an alert if a match is found. To ensure security and privacy, user passwords are hashed and encrypted when they're checked against the database of leaked credentials.

Version 87.0.664.52: November 30

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 87.0.664.40: November 18

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 87.0.664.36: November 16

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 87.0.664.30: November 9

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 87.0.664.24: November 2

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Microsoft Edge For Mac Os

Version 87.0.664.18: October 26

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

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