Posted by: kurtsh | December 20, 2019

INFO: Microsoft’s “new” Edge supports Chrome Plug-ins & more

imageWe’re shipping the final stable release of the new Microsoft Edge, based on Chromium, on January 15th, 2020.

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
The new Microsoft Edge is a dramatic leap forward in browser technology for both enterprise & consumer users.

  1. CHROME PLUG IN SUPPORT
    Nearly all Chrome plug ins work in the new Edge straight from the Chrome store.  You literally visit the store from Edge, select a Chrome plug in, click install, and you’re done.
  2. CHROME COMPATIBILITY
    Edge is compatible with virtually every web site that is Chrome compatible by leveraging the Chromium HTML engine.  If Chrome can access it, so can Edge.
  3. LEGACY IE COMPATIBILITY
    For Enterprise customers, the new Edge is 100% compatible with sites that require Internet Explorer. Edge can switch seamlessly to the Internet Explorer HTML engine for compatibility.
  4. LIGHTER & LESS TRACKING
    180 services, including all the tracking services from Chromium, has been removed from new Edge.
  5. ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT
    New Edge has all the Enterprise manageability, group policies, & security controls IT is familiar with in IE/legacy Edge
  6. SPEED & POWER OPTIMIZATION
    New Edge inherits the speed/performance of predecessors & now has Edge’s power optimization, so it won’t kill your laptop’s battery.
  7. SECURITY THROUGH HARDWARE ISOLATION
    New Edge security supports Hardware-based isolation of browsing sessions of unknown sites to protect users from malware. (bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft…)
  8. NO MORE NOTIFICATION REQUESTS
    New Edge has a feature to BLOCK all website requests to "send notifications". (kurtsh.com/2019/10/28/how…)
  9. PRIVACY & TRACKING PREVENTION
    New Edge actively shields user’s privacy with "Edge Tracking Prevention" – blocking even Google. (bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft…)
  10. BLOCK MALWARE SITES
    New Edge inherits SmartScreen technology to proactively prevent users from visiting known bad/malware web sites.
  11. STYLUS & DIGITAL INKING
    New Edge inherits all of the digital ink support from past Edge releases, providing tablet & stylus users the best experience available.
  12. ACCESSIBILITY BUILT-IN
    New Edge maintains all the Accessibility focus from previous releases and is contributing accessibility improvements to the open source community by submitting them as additions to Chromium’s code base.

…so download the new Edge & give it a try! Releasing this January 15, 2020. Get the beta here:

And for you IT professionals, we’re creating a Security Baseline for enterprise deployment of the new Microsoft Edge. Review & submit feedback here:

Interested in Edge’s progress?  Check out the Edge Development blog here:

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