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Elliot Kirk
Apr 08, 2019Former Employee
Welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insiders community
Hello Microsoft Edge Insiders!
Ever since we first announced in December that Microsoft Edge was going to adopt the Chromium open source project for our desktop browser, we’ve been excited to beg...
night63spirit
Apr 08, 2019Copper Contributor
Mace242 I have to disagree with you on the speed. I'm finding sites are loading faster in Edge Dev than in chrome. Even Google sites like gmail are faster and smoother.
Mace242
Apr 09, 2019Iron Contributor
"Even Google sites like gmail are faster and smoother. "
That's really because you're essentially using Chrome and those sites are optimised for it. If you do a totally clean install of Chrome with no extensions - as I suspect you are running new Edge - then I bet Chrome will be the same. With the new Edge what we're seeing is not Edge with a new engine. It's jsut a rebuild of the chromium source. Compare it with something that is the same - such as Brave - and you'll see that new Edge simply isn't unique - or even new.