Edge 84 in download: the news of the browser

As done in recent days by Google's competitor Chrome, the new Microsoft home browser based on the Chromium engine also switches to version 84: the update released today for Edge brings with it a not inconsiderable number of changes and new features as you can read in the changelog (link at the end of the article) published by the Redmond group.

Edge 84 in rollout: the news

Among the improvements made are those related to the interaction between the mouse and the components of the interface when full screen mode is activated, the possibility of assigning nicknames to the credit or debit cards used for online purchases, the automatic disabling of TLS 1.0 and 1.1, a feature to add customizable notes and notes to the Collections, support for Storage Acc ess API and the Native File System API, optimizations for editing and reading the text contained in PDF documents, translation in Immersive Reader mode and general progress in terms of performance.



Microsoft's goal is to push for the spread of the new Edge in a short time, so as to leave definitively the heavy legacy of Internet Explorer, even if this involves forcing its installation on users' PCs, attracting more of some criticism.

it Is a long road for that to go: the browser of the Redmond holds a market share equal to a few percentage points, the 3,45% with the edition Legacy at the end of June (source StatCounter ) taking into consideration only the desktop platforms, the slightly more than 2.88% of the predecessor IE, well-detached from the more than 8% attributed to competitors such as Safari and Firefox. Chrome is still unreachable for all and goes close to 70%.

Source: Microsoft