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Microsoft To Add Integrated VPN to Edge Browser?
Following the launch of the new Chromium-based Edge browser back in early 2020, while it has proven to be a huge improvement over the prior version, it’s still struggling somewhat to attract users away from Google Chrome and/or other more fringe options. – This is, perhaps, best highlighted by the…
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Microsoft Edge is (Finally) the 2nd Most Popular Desktop Browser!
Back in January 2020, Microsoft announced the general release of its new Chromium-based Edge internet browser. With it basically looking to adopt a lot of the features from Google Chrome while gobbling up (at least in theory) significantly less memory, by all accounts the browser was and is excellent. –…
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Criticism Grows As Microsoft Adds ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ Options to Edge Browser
Having credit can be an amazingly useful tool. Particularly so when an unexpected bill comes along that you don’t quite have the finances to immediately cover. It should be noted though that credit can also be an exceptionally dangerous thing. Granting the illusion of free money, and the freedom to…
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Bing’s #1 Search Engine Request Revealed – It’s ‘Google’ (Ouch!)
Despite coming as effectively the default search engine for both Windows and the Edge internet browser, I don’t think it would be unfair to say that very few people actually use ‘Bing’. With an estimated market share of just 2.71%, despite the best efforts of Microsoft to represent it as…
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Microsoft Researchers Tease “Super Duper Secure Mode” For Edge
Ever since the release of the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge internet browser in early 2020, it has, slowly but surely, been tempting a significant number of users away who were once very firmly entrenched in the Google Chrome camp. Many of us here at eTeknix made the swap shortly after…
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New Edge Update to Hugely Boost Multi-Tab Performance!
While Google Chrome still manages to maintain a pretty dominant stature in the desktop browser market share, following the launch of the new Chromium-based upgrade to Edge last year, more and more people have been transitioning to it. And, we should add, with good reason. The short version is that…
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Edge Update Looks to Improve CPU, RAM, and Battery Usage
Even though Microsoft Edge still has a relatively small user base since transitioning to the new Chromium-based design (around 10% at the time of writing), as someone who uses it literally all the time, I have nothing but good things to say about it. – If you too enjoy it…
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Microsoft Edge Overtakes Firefox in Browser Market Share
Since its release in January 2020, Microsoft’s updated and Chromium-based Edge browser has, slowly but surely, been winning over more and more desktop PC users. Even many of us here at eTeknix have been made converts to it (I’m using Edge as I write this now). And, it should be…
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Edge Legacy to Be Removed from Windows 10 This April
It’s been a little over a year now since Microsoft released the new Chromium-based Edge internet browser and, I must admit that it’s pretty good against all my expectations. In fact, that’s something of a huge understatement. It’s excellent, and I would argue that it’s actually massively better than Google…
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Microsoft Details the End of Flash Support for Edge
All good things must, sooner or later, come to an end. When it was announced back in 2017 that the vast majority of mainstream browsers would stop supporting ‘Flash‘, however, it must admit that it gave me more than a few nostalgic pangs of pain. Most of which, I freely…
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Microsoft Confirms End-Of-Life for Internet Explorer & Edge Legacy
With the relatively recent launch of Microsoft’s new (and excellent) Chromium-based Edge, it seemed that the writing was always on the wall for their older versions of web browsers, such as Internet Explorer or even the original version of Edge, to come to an end. Well, following an official post…
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Microsoft Edge Has a Crash Issue Involving Google Chrome
With the release of the new chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser only a couple of months ago, it has already started to gain a surprisingly level of traction with PC users. While still a long way behind the market share of Google Chrome, it has still managed (in such a relatively…
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Google to Introduce Less RAM Greedy Chrome Update
With the introduction of the new Microsoft Edge earlier this year, it’s remarkable that based on the prior (and rightful) criticism of it, how much the new Chromium-based web browser has improved. How much? Well, let’s just say that it has managed to make converts of many of us here…
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Microsoft is Adding New Useful Features to its Edge Browser
It’s coming up to 3 months now since Microsoft launched its new (and vastly improved) version of its Edge browser. While I won’t bore you with many of the ins and outs of the new version, let’s just say that the migration to a Chromium-based browser (as well as added…
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Microsoft Says the Latest Edge Preview Build is Massively Faster
Around a month ago, Microsoft finally launched its latest version of their Edge internet browser which transitioned itself to a Chromium-based design. While there is, of course, a lot of apathy for the browser, we must admit that (so far) it seems really good. So good, in fact, that it…
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