Microsoft Edge now available for macOS

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!