Here’s the first official preview of Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge browser

Here’s the first official preview of Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge browser

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/you-can-now-download-the-first-official-preview-of-microsoft-edge-with-chromium/

Microsoft today launched the first official version of its Edge browser with the Chromium engine for Windows 10. You can now download the first developer and canary builds here. The canary builds will get daily updates and the developer builds will see weekly updates. Over time, you’ll also be able to opt in to the beta channel and, eventually, the stable channel.

The company first announced this project last December and the news obviously created quite a stir, given that Microsoft was abandoning its own browser engine development in favor of using an open-source engine — and one that is still very much under the control of Google. With that, we’re now down to two major browser engines: Google’s Chromium and Mozilla’s Gecko.