Today, a Canary version of Microsoft’s Edge browser appeared on the Play Store, bringing the browser up to par with the desktop version. Here are some of the changes from the stable release.
Today, a new version of Microsoft Edge for Android, from the Canary channel, was spotted on the Google Play Store. This release follows up on a promise Microsoft made a few weeks ago during its spring Ignite event, where it said it would be unifying the codebase for Edge across the desktop and mobile versions. While Edge for Android was already based on the Chromium engine, it’s actually using a fairly outdated version of it. If you visit whatsmybrowser.org in the stable release, you’ll see that it says you’re using Edge 77, while on desktop, Microsoft just released Edge 90 this week. With the new Edge Canary for Android, you’ll now see Edge 91, which is the same version you’ll see in Edge Canary on the desktop. With that change come some significant performance improvements. We ran a couple of benchmarks on browserbench.org on both the stable release and the Canary version to see how big of a performance difference they would have. Starting with Speedometer, we can see Edge Canary handily beating the stable release by a pretty significant margin, and with less deviation from its average score, too. We also ran JetStream 2, which specifically focuses on JavaScript and WebAssembly for advanced web applications.
