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Microsoft reportedly killing EdgeHTML and building a Chromium-based browser

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According to a new report, Microsoft is working on building yet another web browser, this time based on Chromium. It is seemingly giving up on the current Edge rendering engine, EdgeHTML.
According to a new report from Windows Central, Microsoft is working on yet another web browser, this time based on the open-source Chromium project. This is the same software that Google’s Chrome browser is built on.
The report says that Microsoft is done with EdgeHTML, the rendering engine that Edge is built on. The browser first shipped with Windows 10 (alongside Internet Explorer), and it’s unclear if the firm is killing off Edge or if it’s just replacing what’s under the hood.

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