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There's a new browser launching today, January 15, across various platforms including macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. It's the new version of Microsoft Edge, the company's first browser that's based on the open-source Chromium project, the technology behind the industry-leading Google Chrome.
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Since last summer, I've been using the Microsoft Edge public beta on my MacBook Pro alongside Apple Safari, my default browser for nearly two decades. For this okay, boomer, even the thought of ditching an Apple product for one made by Microsoft was like considering an invitation to join the dark side. Nonetheless, flirting with Microsoft Edge turned out to be a positive experience.
With the first Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser now available to the public, I plan on continuing my Microsoft adventure for various reasons. Still, I'm not ready to ditch Apple Safari either for the reasons noted below.
Good start
After months in beta testing, Microsoft's new Edge browser for Mac has added a first look at its much-promised Collections feature. This is a research tool that previously AppleInsider has said. Familiar Microsoft Edge features like the Hub allow users to organize the web in a way that cuts through the clutter, making it easier to find, view and manage their content on-the-go. Microsoft Edge is designed for Windows 10 users to browse the web how they need to, wherever they are, without disrupting their flow.
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Price: Free download.
Bottom line: Even as an unfinished product, Microsoft Edge is on the right track. Mac users should take it for a test drive and not feel guilty about it.
The Good
- Easy setup and import
- Robust, flexible security tools
- Access to Chromium-based extensions
The Bad
- No Apple Pay integration
- No iCloud password integration
- Syncing isn't a finished product
Packed with features
What is Microsoft Edge?
Originally, I thought the best way to review Microsoft Edge for Mac was to compare it to Apple's Safari. After much thought, I decided against taking this approach, although I do plan on writing a separate article for iMore explaining the key differences between the two browsers. For this review, I'll focus instead on Microsoft Edge's broad features, then unpack its biggest strengths and weaknesses and why you should consider adding it to your Mac.
All about Chromium
Any discussion on Microsoft Edge needs to begin with one about Chromium. This web browser project was originally developed by Google. Like all successful open-source projects, it's been steadily improved by many third-parties, of which Microsoft is only one.
With Chromium, Google has long promised a 'lightweight and fast' internet experience. From there, it has largely been left to others to make browser-specific features worth considering.
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Today, Chromium serves as the starting point for many browsers, not just Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. These include Amazon Silk, Brave, and many others.
A security and privacy win
Microsoft Edge: What I like
The first Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge is packed with high-profile features. No doubt, those on the surface will get most of the attention. However, I've been most impressed with what's going on behind the scenes.
Hackers will always target web browsers and I don't expect that will ever change. While nothing is 100 percent secure, Microsoft is doing its part to push its Edge browser closer to absolute security through tracking prevention and a so-called SmartScreen tool.
Tracking prevention
In Microsoft Edge, you get to decide how much free rein web trackers have while you're surfing. The trackers, which collect data about how you interact with a site, includes a mix of good and bad actors. Unfortunately, separating the two isn't always easy. At launch, Microsoft Edge offers three levels of tracking prevention, Basic, Balanced, and Strict.
Under Basic, Microsoft blocks trackers it thinks are potentially harmful, while allowing others that are intended to personalize your web content and ads. The Balanced approach, which Microsoft recommends for most users, blocks harmful trackers and those from sites you haven't visited. The trade-off is you receive a less robust and personalized experience compared to the Basic option.
With Strict tracking, Microsoft blocks harmful trackers and the majority of all trackers across most sites. Under this scenario, your surfing experience becomes even less personalized. Depending on the site, the limit could also disable video and login capabilities.
Like Microsoft, I believe the Balanced approach is optimal for most users. Nonetheless, I'm impressed Microsoft has moved past an all or nothing approach when it comes to tracking. Better still, you can switch back and forth between the three levels at will depending on your circumstances or location.
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SmartScreen and Application Guard
Meanwhile, with built-in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen technology, Microsoft Edge can protect you from accidentially visiting locations online previously reported as phishing or malware websites. The tool also sends out an alert if you attempt to download potentially malicious files.
For those in a work environment, Microsoft has given IT professionals even more control over SmartScreen. For businesses, there's also the Application Guard, which is designed to help prevent web-based attacks using hardware isolation.
Looking beyond privacy and security, there's no denying Microsoft has spent a great deal of time during the beta process to create a setup process simple enough for anyone to complete. As part of this, it made it easy to import data from other browsers. Current Apple Safari users, for example, can import favorites, bookmarks, and browsing history, while Google Chrome users also have the ability to import payment and password information, addresses, settings, and more.
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As part of the Microsoft Edge setup process, you can also create an informative web page that shows up on new tabs. The page offers a Microsoft Bing web search box, quick links to your most visited web sites, and a full Microsoft News page. You can change the tab page to match one of three canned layouts or make it your own by creating a more customized version. The new page is a nice touch and one of the key reasons to consider making a switch.
Lots of extensions
Another benefit of using the Chromium-backed Microsoft Edge browser is compatibility. Not only can you take advantage of Microsoft's new extension store for Edge, but you can also install content from the Chrome Web Store. The compatibility means you now have access to over 190,000 extensions and web apps. At last count, Safari offers less than 100.
Extensions make a web browser even more useful and offers a great way to further customize the experience. Available extensions include web security tools, translators, password generators, and much more.
iCloud averse, lacking features
Microsoft Edge: What I don't like
The Chromium version of Microsoft Edge arrives with two limitations that could make it a tough sell for users, at least in the short-term.
One of Microsoft Edge's most important features is sync, which keeps your browser history, favorites, passwords, and other data the same across all of your devices. Unfortunately, sync isn't fully supported at launch. No doubt, Microsoft will correct this omission soon, but it's a head-scratching omission from such a high-profile launch.
There's no easy fix to the second limitation, which affects only Apple users. Microsoft Edge, unlike Apple Safari, doesn't support iCloud. Because of this, there's no way to bring over your iCloud Keychain username and passwords to the new browser. You also can't use Apple Pay. Because of the former, I have found it nearly impossible to fully embrace the Microsoft Edge browser and choose it over Apple Safari. However, if you use a third-party password manager such as 1Password, this limitation isn't important.
Beyond these pain points, Microsoft Edge is a nearly perfect browser and I can't wait to see where it goes from here. I'm also excited about trying the refreshed iOS version, available on the App Store.
Speedy, but ..
I'm not the type who puts a lot of weight on software benchmarks because those tests are heavily influenced by hardware. Because of this, I'll leave it to others to fully analyze the performance of Microsoft Edge and compare it to other browsers on the market, including Apple Safari.
With that being said, during my limited tests, I didn't see much of a difference between the two browsers. Like other Chromium-based browsers, Microsoft Edge on Mac is quick. However, it didn't seem any faster or slower than Apple Safari. Your situation could differ depending on the age of your computer, which is certainly worth keeping in mind.
A mostly great product
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As 2020 begins, a plurality of Mac users now use Google Chrome as their browser of choice, followed by Apple Safari. In total, the two browsers control 93 percent of the market on macOS. That could soon change thanks to the arrival of Chromium-based Microsoft Edge.
If you're a current Chrome browser user ..
The new browser has been designed with privacy and protection in mind. At the same time, it firmly embraces the third-party integration and speed that has made Chrome the most popular browser on desktops overall.
If you're a current Apple Safari user ..
Thanks to limitations from Apple, Microsoft Edge can't import all content from Safari, such as passwords. However, if you're willing to look past this and want to jump head first into open-source Chromium web browsing, you should give Microsoft Edge a try. Offering perhaps a fresher experience than Safari with more privacy features, the newest browser for Mac is beautifully designed, fun to use, and customizable to match your unique tastes.
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A worthy alternative.
Microsoft Edge could give Google Chrome and Apple Safari a run for web browser supremacy on a Mac.
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After months in beta testing, Microsoft's new Edge browser for Mac has added a first look at its much-promised Collections feature. This is a research tool that previously AppleInsider
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has said may become a reason to switch from Safari.That was if it lived up to its promise, and this first look is still far too early to be decisive. The Collections feature doesn't feature in the regular public beta yet, nor even its developer beta, but it has now been included in the early-look build called Canary.
As such, it's got bugs, and they will surely be fixed, but they do get in the way. Nonetheless, there is enough here to start assessing the Collections feature —and what works so far, has potential.
Previously on Edge
To make an important recap, Microsoft is building a new browser to succeed the failed Internet Explorer. It's really building it for the PC, but because the company has chosen to base it on the same engine that powers Google Chrome, and Chrome is on the Mac, so Edge is on macOS too.
You do still get the sense that being on the Mac is a happy chance rather than an aim. The way you navigate through settings is very un-Mac-like, with the need to type in application URLs to navigate around, although this appears improved since the first betas.
Only the fact that Microsoft Edge (foreground) includes news means you can distinguish it from Chrome (rear), at least until you open Collections.
More than anything else, though, Microsoft Edge looks like Google Chrome. It's so like Chrome that if you like Google's browser, you'll feel at home here, but equally there's been little reason to switch.
Similarly, if you don't like Chrome, then you won't like Edge —at least not until you try Collections.
This really is the differentiator between Edge and other browsers. It's closest to Safari's Reading List in that in one sense it's a way to save some bookmarks, but it's much more powerful.
Collections
You can create as many different Collections as you like, having one for your favorite football team, another for that planned vacation in France, a third for work. In each case it's quick to create a collection, and then it's very quick to add items to it that you find online.
When you go to a website, and Collections is open but you haven't either created or selected a particular Collection, you get an Add Current Page button.
It doesn't always work, but you get it. Then when you have created a Collection and you've clicked into one of them, there's an Add current page link at the top.
Note that the button is capitalized and at the bottom of the pane, while the link is at the top and not capitalized. It sounds trivial, but it keeps taking a blink as you're trying to find where the function is, and remember why you get it where you do. That's compounded every time the button fails to work, too, making what will surely become a fast and smooth feature currently feel wearisome.
Once you create a Collection, you get an Add Current Page button.
When you have Collections and you're showing a list of them, you get their name plus three thumbnail images representing whatever you've saved in there.
You should be and presumably will be able to drag items directly into the collection. That's particularly useful because it means rather than saving an entire web page, you should be able to just drag in an image, for instance.
In practice, in this early look, you can do this but you have to drag the image off the website and drop it onto the Collections icon, the tool that displays or hides the Collections pane. Drop it there and the webpage is replaced by just that image. Then you can click on the Add current page link to save it.
This isn't an example of Microsoft adding hoops to a task, it's a prime example of Microsoft not adding enough. When you see an image you want, and you've got all your Collections listed, the design makes you expect to be able to drag it over to one of those collections. Do something that the design doesn't expect, even if it's what that design appears to cry out to you to do, and it all clunks.
Microsoft seems to expect you to be adding to just one Collection in any given session, so actually if you first go into one, then you can drag anything there.
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There is also a context menu method of adding any part of any webpage. Click on the image or highlight some text and then right-click, and you get a menu including Add to Collections. That works quickly and is a good way of swiftly amassing notes on a topic.
Managing research
You can do much management of the Collections, but you can do some. Your primary way of organizing your research is to create lots of specific Collections. However, you can write notes in there. And you can drag and drop items to rearrange them.
You can see multiple Collections at once, but you can't yet drag into them from here.
So you could collect a group of related items and make a note above them all to say so.
There is currently one Share option available in the Collections. You can share all of the items in a Collection —seemingly not one or some, only all —but you can solely share them to Microsoft Excel.
Of all the apps to share collections of website information to, you might expect Microsoft Word, OneNote or OneDrive before you thought of Excel.
However, it works. It sends to Microsoft Excel Online, regardless of whether you have Excel installed on your Mac or not, and it's quite slow. Yet once it's there, your Collections data is displayed as a table with two columns. There's the Title, which is the headline of the original webpage, and then a link to that page.
If the item in Collections is a text snippet from a web page, though, the snippet doesn't survive the journey to Excel. Instead, you get the headline from whatever page it came from, and a link back to that.
Surely that will be addressed as right now it removes some of the benefits of being able to save part of a website before it's updated.
You can share your Collections to Excel. Obviously.
And equally surely, there will come the ability to share one or some of the items, as the Excel table is prefixed with a heading that ends in the words 'all items,' as if that's your choice instead of the only option.
Collections isn't all
If we said before that Collections could be the reason to switch from another browser, we still think that. However, Microsoft Edge has had other improvements.
Chiefly we're now seeing some of the speed that we were promised before but simply weren't getting. Microsoft Edge is quick and if that's not enough reason to switch, it's definitely a contributing factor.
Just don't switch yet. As well as the Collections feature which Microsoft says quite clearly is unfinished, we also kept hitting problems with websites such as Netflix and YouTube.
YouTube would occasionally display an error and have to be reloaded, for instance, while we couldn't get Netflix.com to play at all.
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This kind of thing is to be expected in a beta, and so is the fact that doubtlessly Microsoft Edge is bigger now than the final shipping version will be. Although, it takes up around a quarter as much disk space as Google Chrome. And remains about 15 times bigger than Safari.
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Right now
It's not a good idea to switch to Microsoft Edge right now, but not because it has any great problems beyond those occasional hiccups with video on web pages. It's not worth it because at the moment it isn't offering anything you're not already getting on Safari or Chrome.
Collections is a head-turner and if it's limitations so far feel more like longer-term design issues than short-term beta bugs, we're still impressed with what works in it.