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Windows Central: Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10

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Pokemaniac

Pokemaniac

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Oct 25, 2017
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https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-building-chromium-powered-web-browser-windows-10
Because of this, I'm told that Microsoft is throwing in the towel with EdgeHTML and is instead building a new web browser powered by Chromium, a rendering engine first popularized by Google's Chrome browser. Codenamed Anaheim, this new web browser for Windows 10 will replace Edge as the default browser on the platform. It's unknown at this time if Anaheim will use the Edge brand or a new brand, or if the user interface between Edge and Anaheim is different. One thing is for sure, however; EdgeHTML in Windows 10's default browser is dead.
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This is really bad, if true. Google already has too much control over web standards, and this is only going to cede more to them.

It would leave Gecko, WebKit, and Blink as the only browser engines still alive.
 
Blanquito

Blanquito

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Oct 28, 2017
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Wow. This is... interesting.

I wonder if all the dev effort on EdgeHTML is going to move over to improving Chromium, or if they'll just drop some of those devs or what.
 
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