In my tests, Edge also feels faster than Chrome and uses on average 14% less RAM. And unlike Chrome, Edge offers tracking prevention, which blocks ad providers from tracking you from website to website. The biggest drawback to the old Edge was its paltry selection of browser extensions, but because the new Edge uses the same rendering engine as Chrome, it can run Chrome extensions, which number in the thousands. The browser offers a clean design with intuitive features. It’s probably worth at least trying out the new Edge. If you’ve set another browser as your default, the new Edge won’t automatically override your preference - but like all browsers, it will ask if you want to make it the default. If you’ve been using the old Edge as your default browser, the new one will be your default as well. Enterprise users may or may not have it yet, depending on their IT departments’ rollout plans. Why you might want to stick with Edgeīy now, the new Edge has most likely been automatically delivered to most Windows 10 Home and Pro users via Windows Update. If you haven’t installed it, the screens you see may vary somewhat from what you see here. The instructions in this article assume that you’ve installed the latest version of Windows 10 - version 20H2, a.k.a.

As I’ll show you, it only takes a few minutes. Whatever the reason, if Edge is your default Windows 10 browser, it’s easy to switch to the browser of your choice. When there’s a major Windows 10 upgrade, the upgrade recommends switching to Edge, and you might have inadvertently made the switch. Note that even if you’ve previously set up another browser to be your default, it might have been changed since then. But you might still prefer to use Chrome, Firefox, or one of the many other browsers out there. The new Edge is a much better browser, and there are compelling reasons to use it.

The original version of Edge was underpowered, had difficult-to-use features, and offered very few extensions compared to Chrome and Firefox.īut in January 2020, Microsoft launched a new version of Edge that’s based on the same technologies that drive Chrome. Even though the company made Edge the default browser in Windows 10, users left in droves, most of them flocking to Google Chrome - and with good reason.

Microsoft has been struggling to get people to use its Edge browser for years.

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