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Elliot Kirk
Microsoft
May 20, 2019Microsoft Edge now available for macOS
This morning we published the first builds of our Microsoft Edge browser built for macOS. You can read our full blog post about it here. Then download it, if you are running a Mac, and then come ba...
chrisjl
May 22, 2019Copper Contributor
Elliot Kirk First impressions from a regular Safari user.
I know Edge for Mac is based on Chromium, but I don't use Google Chrome due to issues with energy usage and privacy, so some of the 'chrome-like' elements of Edge for Mac are unfamiliar to me. Many of the good points I cite below are quite possibly things that Edge gets 'for free' because it's based on Chromium.
The good:
- It feels very fast
- It respects the system-wide dark mode
- Easy to change font sizes, which is important to me from an accessibility standpoint
The not so good:
- It feels like a port from another OS; close buttons on the right of the tabs?!
- Non-standard contextual menus feel quite alien
- On first launch it offers to import bookmarks from Chrome, but not the default Mac browser Safari
On a general point I do wonder how much continuous re-skinning is going to be needed over time to keep Edge looking and feeling like a true at-home Mac app.
That said it's good to have another browser choice on the platform. I can't remember the last time I used a Microsoft browser on the Mac!