If You Can't Beat The Enemy, Join Them: Microsoft Could Adopt Chromium As Edge Rendering Engine

Microsoft bet on Edge in its day as an attempt to recover lost ground with Microsoft Explorer. The previous Redmond browser had seen how time had negatively affected it and both Firefox and a very young Google Chrome had won the game.

The alternative to solve this lack and competitiveness was to banish Internet Explorer and with Windows 10 to welcome Microsoft Edge. A more up-to-date browser, designed to stand up to Chrome and Firefox and yet it loses steam with each passing day.

The American company does not find the key to achieve an interesting alternative that makes us bet on Edge. We see how in MacOS Apple has achieved a large number of faithful followers of Safari, something that Microsoft has not achieved with Edge.

There can be many reasons. A serious lack of extensions, at least initially when it was released or problems with the engine it uses for rendering, an own development that made it more expensive to maintain.

Of the updates little by little these are increasing, yes, far from Chrome or Firefox. And regarding the rendering engine (EdgeHTML), news may be coming very soon. And it is that apparently and as mentioned in Windows Central, Microsoft could already be working on using a rendering engine based on Chromium, similar to the one used by Google Chrome, Opera and Safari.

Development is codenamed Anaheim and is scheduled to arrive with the next Windows branch, 19H1, which prepares the big update that should be released in spring. A browser that will completely replace Edge.

With this measure, on the one hand, it would offer a more compatible web browser (it could even be compatible with Chrome extensions with all the that this supposes) and on the other hand that this was easier to maintain. In this way, I would follow the steps started in Android, where Edge has already set aside EdgeHTML to use Chromium on a platform where it is being successful.

We can't wait to see how this change would feel to Edge in Windows 10 It would be another step for Microsoft in the search for the perfect solution to try once and for all to get the large market of users who adopt Windows 10 to decide to work with Edge as the main browser.