What are the most frustrating requirements of being a front-end developer? At the top of the list is “Compatible with Internet Explorer (6?).” “.

Fortunately, Microsoft first released Edge on Windows 10 in 2015, replacing Internet Explorer as the default browser.

Microsoft Edge removes some outdated and less secure technologies, including ActiveX, and adds new extensions such as creating web notes, Cortana voice assistant, and OneDrive. It also offers web markup and reading mode. Unfortunately, Edge has had almost no success.

Microsoft designed a new rendering engine called EdgeHTML for Edge that was fast, light, and safe. Edge also offered Web developers easier debugging tools, but users still rejected it.

Compared to Trident 7 in Internet Explorer 11, the browser engine has significantly improved JavaScript performance in early benchmarks. The new browser is twice as fast as Internet Explorer 11, and faster than Google Chrome 43 and Mozilla Firefox 40. Edge was significantly faster than other browsers in SunSpider benchmarks, and in tests with Google’s Octane 2.0 and Jetstream Benchmark, It’s faster than Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera, and uses less power than other browsers. Now Microsoft is changing that engine.

It wasn’t long ago that users discovered that Microsoft engineers were submitting code to the Chromium project, and some researchers analyzed that Microsoft was the biggest contributor to Chromium on ARM for Windows 10. This is further evidence that Microsoft is working on their own Chromium-based Windows 10 browser.

Back in February 2013, Opera started using code from the Chromium project to change its typography engine to WebKit. In April, Google announced that the typography engine would be separated from WebKit to create a new typography engine called Blink, and Opera followed Google’s lead in using Blink.

It’s unclear whether Microsoft will use the Edge brand or a new one, but one thing is for sure: EdgeHTML in Windows 10’s default browser is dead.

A lot of people were happy to hear that Microsoft is finally moving to a different rendering engine for the default browser on Windows 10. Using Chromium means that websites will look the same in Microsoft’s Browser as they do in Google’s Chrome. Microsoft’s own browser will eventually be able to compete with Chrome, Opera and Firefox.

We don’t know how much Chromium code Microsoft will use this time.

There is also concern about whether Microsoft’s new browser has the same memory footprint as Chrome.

If Microsoft adopts Chromium, will you use the new browser?

(I started using Firefox for my daily browser a year ago and Chrome for development.)