What is the most troublesome requirement as a front-end developer? The first place is definitely "IE compatible (6?)".
Fortunately, Microsoft first released the Edge browser on Windows 10 in 2015, which replaced IE as the default browser for Windows 10.
Microsoft Edge removes some outdated and less secure technologies, including ActiveX, and adds some new expanded technologies such as creating web notes, Cortana voice assistant and OneDrive, and also provides web markup and reading mode functions. Unfortunately, Edge has hardly achieved any success.
Microsoft specifically designed a new rendering engine EdgeHTML for Edge, which is fast, lightweight and safe. Edge also provides a more convenient debugging tool for Web developers, but users still rejected it.
Compared to Trident 7 in Internet Explorer 11, the JavaScript performance of the browser engine in the early benchmark tests has been greatly improved. The new browser is twice as fast as IE11 and faster than Google Chrome 43 and Mozilla Firefox 40. In SunSpider's benchmark test, Edge is significantly faster than other browsers. In Google's Octane 2.0 and Jetstream Benchmark tests, it is faster than Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera, and consumes less power than other browsers. . Now Microsoft wants to replace this engine.
Not long ago, users discovered that Microsoft engineers submitted the code to the Chromium project. Some researchers analyzed that Microsoft is the largest contributor to Chromium on ARM on the Windows 10 platform. This also further shows that Microsoft is developing its own Chromium-based Windows 10 browser.
As early as February 2013, the Opera browser began to use the code of the Chromium project and changed its typesetting engine to WebKit. In April, Google announced that the typesetting engine would be separated from WebKit to build a new typesetting engine called Blink. Opera also followed Google to use the Blink typesetting engine.
It is not clear whether Microsoft will use the Edge brand or the new brand, but one thing is certain: EdgeHTML in the default browser of Windows 10 is dead.
Many people are happy to hear that Microsoft finally adopted a different rendering engine for the default browser on Windows 10. Using Chromium means that the display effect of the website in the Microsoft browser can be consistent with that of Google Chrome. Microsoft's own browser will eventually be able to compete with Chrome, Opera and Firefox.
I don't know how much Chromium code Microsoft will use this time.
There is another point that everyone is worried about: whether the memory usage of Microsoft's new browser is the same as Chrome.
If Microsoft adopted Chromium, would you use the new browser?
(I started using Firefox as my daily browser a year ago, and Chrome for development)