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Chromium Edge Blurry
So this was something I stumbled across unexpectedly in the Chromium version of Edge. The image on the left is Chromium Edge and the image on the right is the standard version of Edge. You'll notice ...
Bradcore I tried to replicate this on three computers (one a Dell XPS 8920 with AMD Radeon 580 and Dell P2717H (1920x1080) monitor, the second a Dell Latitude 13-7280 laptop with Intel 620 onboard graphics (1366x768), and the third a Dell Inspiron 11-3185 laptop with Radeon R5 graphics (1366x768)), and could not. In each case, I lined up Edge Classic, Edge Dev and Firefox 66.02) and clicked back and forth across several identical pages (WP and NYT front pages, the Edge Insider's page with your comment, and Outlook). I am seeing a slight difference in rendering, but nothing dramatic and no marked blur. The fonts in Edge Dev appear thinner than the fonts in Edge Classic or Firefox, and the fonts appear a little less sharp, but I don't know if that is a font difference or a difference in rendering. I'm glad you brought it up, though, because if there are blur problems in Edge Dev (even on a relative small number of devices), then MS needs to know about it and get it corrected. My relatively low resolutions might not show something that is apparent at higher resolutions. I hope that the team will add this to the issues list and check it out.
tomscharbach Thank you. Something I find interesting is that the blur almost seems to be selective of what is blurred/fuzzy. I've included another example, this one is a bit more subtle. The top images show Outlook.com with Chromium Edge on the left and Classic Edge on the right. The Crhoming version appears lighter and fuzzier while in the Classic Edge, the text is noticably sharper and the colors more bold.
This doesn't seem to carry over on every page or website though. On the lower pictures, the text looks fine in both Chromium and Classic Edge, maybe slightly bolder in color in classic, but crisp in both. The problem for me arises in things like Outlook.com where the fuzziness actually bothers my eyes. I can't look at Outlook.com through Chromium without getting a headache.
Bradcore Outlook opens for me in outlook.live.com. In Outlook on outlook.live.com, I am getting the okay results (Edge Chromium fonts slightly greyer and thinner than either Edge Classic or Firefox, but clear enough) and no blur. I've been keeping an eye out as I wandered around in Edge Chromium today and I haven't seen the blur problem yet. I don't use Chrome, but I do use Chromium on a Linux computer, and the fonts on that computer seem to render very similarly to Edge Chromium on this computer. So I don't know. I do wish that MS would darken the font rendering in Edge Chromium -- deeper black seems more crisp to me -- but so far I haven't had the unreadability problem you seem to be encountering.
I guess that what I would do at this point is to report the problem using the Smiley face in the browser, so that it doesn't get overlooked. Something is not right with the blur problem you are reporting, and MS needs to look at it.
I'm attaching a jpg file showing my look at Outlook in the three browsers.
