Loving Edge Dev.....

Dennis5mile 

The Edge team has done a remarkable job so far, adapting the Chromium/Blick/V8 base to Edge UI/functions/features.

The initial release (Dev 74.1.96.24 in my case) is so solid, stable and functional that I've adopted Edge Chromium as my primary browser on all my Windows computers, and intend to stick with that though the development process, absent something unexpected.

We are very early in the development cycle, and as the Edge team builds on the initial release, adding features/functions from Edge Classic to the mix and developing new features/functions not now in Edge Classic, I expect that we'll see problems cropping up (I've read, for example, that one of this week's Canary builds created crashing issues, resolved in the next daily build). That's to be expected and doesn't bother me, although I'll be staying out of the Canary Channel because I want a reasonable level of stability given that I'm using Edge Chromium as my primary browser.

I don't have the ability to do performance metrics, but so far the browser seems very fast and performs well on all three of my Windows computers, a i7 desktop, an i5 laptop and a netbook-level A9-9420e laptop. My only concern is relatively high resource use and attendant battery run-down. Chromium (and Chrome) are notorious in that regard and I expect that MS will tune Edge Chromium over time to bring Edge Chromium more in line with Edge Classic in that regard.

I'm with you, though. The deeper I get into Edge Chromium, the better I like it.