
The first test builds of Microsoft Edge were made available to the general public back in April and since then, daily canary and weekly developer channel builds have been released on a regular cadence.

With this announcement, they are sharing with customers that the new Edge is ready for testing for both business and enterprise customers. The company is now inviting enterprise customers to grab these Microsoft Edge downloads and begin their own in-house testing.Įarlier this week at the company’s annual Inspire partner conference, Microsoft released details about the Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge along with information and tools to begin your enterprise testing. We highly recommend this program to all users.Microsoft said last year that they would build a new version of their Edge web browser based on the open-source Chromium rendering engine and offer those browser builds on not only Windows 10 but also Windows 7, 8.1 and macOS. It comes as a zip file and runs after extraction with no need to install.


We didn't have to do a lot of searching for the features that we wanted and, even though it's relatively no-frills, we didn't find ourselves missing anything. Transitioning to a new browser always requires an adjustment period, but overall, we found Chromium to be quite intuitive and pleasurable to use. The program's Help file directs users to Google's Chrome Web site, which is fine, as the programs are virtually identical. In fact, everything about Chromium is fast, from its start-up to the way it handles Web pages. The fact that opening a new tab or window shows a grid of the user's most-visited Web sites is ingenious getting to your favorite Web destinations has never been faster or easier. We loved that the search box and address bar are combined into one space they worked surprisingly well that way. We easily imported our bookmarks and other settings from Firefox, allowing us to make a pretty seamless transition.

With a bit of exploration, though, we soon caught on. There aren't a lot of buttons, and we were momentarily confused by its lack of a search box. To the uninitiated, Chromium's interface may seem rather sparse. We've always been Firefox loyalists ourselves, but Chromium impressed us quite a bit. Chromium is a sleek, lightweight browser that provides an efficient browsing experience with no unnecessary clutter.
