It does not support ActiveX, Browser Helper Objects or Adobe Flash Player. It is designed to be a lightweight web browser with a layout engine built around web standards.
It was later rebuilt as a Chromium-based browser using the Blink and V8 engines. The Chromium-based Edge replaced Internet Explorer (IE) in Windows 11 as the default browser.Įdge was initially built with Microsoft's own proprietary browser engine EdgeHTML and their Chakra JavaScript engine, a version now referred to as Microsoft Edge Legacy. For more information, see Microsoft Edge /edge Microsoft Edge is a cross-platform web browser developed by Microsoft, released in 2015 for Windows 10 and Xbox One, for Android and iOS in 2017, for macOS in 2019, and for Linux in 2020 it can replace Internet Explorer on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later versions but unlike IE, this browser does not support Windows Vista and earlier versions. Edge Workspaces are automatically saved and kept up to date. Each Edge Workspace contains its own set of tabs and favorites, all created and curated by the user and their collaborators. Edge Workspaces lets users share a set of browser tabs so working groups can view the same websites and latest working files in one place and stay on the same page. Edge Workspaces provides a way for customers to organize their browsing tasks into dedicated windows. Stable channel security updates are listed here. Here is the changelog:įixed various bugs and performance issues for Stable and Extended Stable release. In addition, the new Edge 114 stable version has some policy changes and a number of security updates. This update includes the previously revealed Edge Workspaces feature, which allows people to share the same tab sets and more. Microsoft has launched the latest version of its Edge browser to the stable channel.