Windows 10 Edge over Chrome

Neemobeer

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Edge is moving to a chromium based browser now. Chrome tends to fair better in the pwn2own browser hacking competition than other browsers.

 

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Fenway16

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Chromium based browser? Better? pwn2own? Not sure what these 2 comments mean...pls splain. tanks.

 

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Neemobeer

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Google Chrome is based on the open source browser project Chromium as are a lot of browsers.
The Chromium Projects

All the Chromium-based browsers | ZDNet

Edge has been developed as a closed source browser by Microsoft. They are going another direction by using the Chromium code base for Microsoft Edge going forward.
Microsoft's Edge to morph into a Chromium-based, cross-platform browser | ZDNet

Pwn2Own is a browser hacking competition that awards money for teams that find and exploit vulnerabilities in browsers. It's basically a bug bounty competition
Pwn2Own - Wikipedia

 

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Fenway16

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So Edge will be an open sourced browser. Is that better than closed source? Thanks for info.

 

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Hermitkrab

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Fenway16 said:

I keep seeing all this press about the Giant Google. The press isn't good. What do users on win10 use? Chrome -- Edge. What is the feeling about Edge? Do users like it - Edge claims to be more secure. Would love to hear some thoughts. Thanks.

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I use Edge exclusively, although I need to use Chrome on those occasions where I need to access a certain area in my Bank of America account. For some reason, Edge doesn't work there. All in all, I like Edge. I don't remember ever having it crash or otherwise act badly.

 

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Thanks for that. I think I'll give it a try.

 

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I've been using the Chromium Edge beta version and I like it thus far. Like @Hermitkrab I too need to use Chrome every now and then for certain sites and my kids need to use it for school sites.

 

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