After moving the Edge browser to the Chromium engine, Microsoft finally landed a browser that many people are willing to use and switch to permanently. My personal…
Why it matters: Microsoft’s Edge vulnerability researchers are interested in testing a rather unconventional idea that could improve the security of Chromium-based browsers for people that are willing to sacrifice a bit of performance. It’s been called «Super-Duper Secure Mode» and is mostly a fun experiment at this point, but it could turn into a real feature if there’s enough user interest. After moving the Edge browser to the Chromium engine, Microsoft finally landed a browser that many people are willing to use and switch to permanently. My personal experience has been that Edge runs without any major headaches ever since the first developer and canary builds arrived for Windows 10. Since then, Microsoft has been adding a slew of features such as sleeping tabs, a password generator, vertical tabs, and more. Google last year stopped warning people about supposed security risks of Edge, and the two companies have since committed to working together in fixing the biggest pain points in cross-browser compatibility for the modern web. Edge doesn’t have perfect security, but like most browsers it does have some features that keep you as protected as you can be without becoming a headache.
