A Microsoft developer yesterday posted a comment on the Hacker News website stating that Microsoft’s decision to use Chromium for its Edge browser was partly because Google made changes to its websites that broke other browsers than Google’s own Chrome. One of the changes also broke Edge’s hardware acceleration on Youtube, according to the developer.
A Microsoft developer yesterday posted a comment on the Hacker News website stating that Microsoft’s decision to use Chromium for its Edge browser was partly because Google made changes to its websites that broke other browsers than Google’s own Chrome. One of the changes also broke Edge’s hardware acceleration on Youtube, according to the developer.
Recently, Microsoft announced it would switch from EdgeHTML to Chromium for its Edge browser. The move is interesting as the open-source Chromium project is also the code base on which Google bases its Chrome browser on. By moving to Chromium, Edge will be able to run Chrome extensions without modifications and Microsoft has also stated it will join Google in contributing to Chromium.
