Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge Browser Now Available in Beta

[trparky]

I've seen this. Seems Microsoft has pulled out the goods. This beta of Edge seems to be running better that Chrome. Very interesting. Hate to say it, but they may have done right here..

Yep, Microsoft has actually done a damn good job with this new browser. It's convinced me to use a Microsoft web browser again. Who knew we'd be praising Microsoft here.

Excuse me while I go to the restroom, I need to use Listerine to get the taste of praising Microsoft out of my mouth. Something about it just tastes funny.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It's convinced me to use a Microsoft web browser again.

Oh, I'm not saying that...

Who knew we'd be praising Microsoft here.

Right? Just feels wrong...

Excuse me while I go to the restroom, I need to use Listerine to get the taste of praising Microsoft out of my mouth.

Yup, I need to go wash my hands after typing out that comment...

 

[trparky]

Yup, I need to go wash my hands after typing out that comment...

You might need to burn the keyboard too.

I'm using this browser full time, what better way to really put it through its paces than to use it full time. For being a beta version it's stable, like really stable.

 

[lexluthermiester]

You might need to burn the keyboard too.

Actually I had that thought... Playfully of course...

I'm using this browser full time, what better way to really put it through its paces than to use it full time. For being a beta version it's stable, like really stable.

Oooo, just don't do anything important. Use a more secure browser for things that require actual security, like online banking and what not.

 

[trparky]

Oooo, just don't do anything important. Use a more secure browser for things that require actual security, like online banking and what not.

Yes, but one can argue that everything is secure up until someone finds an exploit. Since this new browser is based largely on the very same engine that Google Chrome uses (namely Chromium), one could say that it's just as secure as Google Chrome is.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Yes, but one can argue that everything is secure up until someone finds an exploit. Since this new browser is based largely on the very same engine that Google Chrome uses (namely Chromium), one could say that it's just as secure as Google Chrome is.

Safety through obscurity? LOL! It's your life, just thought to being the voice of reason.

 

[trparky]

I'm just saying, can one really trust their web browser? Unless one takes the time to learn C/C++ programming and audits every line of code in the source code that's made available, we have to simply trust that the people who wrote the code know what they're doing. Chromium and by extension Google Chrome has survived the trial by fire, for the most part. I'm not saying that Google Chrome is 100% secure since really nothing can be but it's about as close to it as we can possibly get. Sure, it's gotten a number of exploits but they've largely been patched pretty fast and thanks to the sandboxing techniques that Chromium uses it's pretty much bulletproof. And like I said before, this new Edge browser is based upon the same code that Google Chrome is based upon namely Chromium.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I'm just saying, can one really trust their web browser?

Yup. Firefox has been checked, rechecked & rechecked again over and over. It's a continuous process and because the entire browser is open for the whole world to see, when there is a problem it is swiftly fixed. Chromium might be open source but Chrome isn't and neither is Edge. There are parts of both that are hidden from the public and thus we can not completely trust them. Fork projects like Iron and Comodo's Dragon can be trusted because all of the source is open for inspection.

No one can completely trust Edge because we have no idea what Microsoft has done to it. We have only their word to accept for it safety and security. We need only look to IE to see how much that word is worth.