The Chromium based browser from Microsoft, with vertical tabs, sleeping tabs, a built in reader and the full Chrome extension catalogue available to it.
Edge runs on the same Chromium engine as Chrome, which means site compatibility is effectively identical and every extension in the Chrome catalogue installs and runs. What separates it is the layer Microsoft built on top, and a few of those additions are genuinely better than anything the rest of the field ships. Vertical tabs is the obvious one: move the tab strip to the side, collapse it to icons, and a session with forty tabs open stops being unreadable.
Memory behaviour is the other practical difference. Sleeping tabs release the resources of anything you have not touched for a configurable interval, and the tab keeps its favicon and title so nothing looks different until you click back into it. On a laptop with sixteen gigabytes and a heavy session that alone is worth several gigabytes of headroom. There is a performance panel that shows exactly which tabs are asleep and what they gave back.
Reading is handled better than the browser needs to. Immersive Reader strips a page down to text and images, with adjustable column width, line spacing, font, background tint and a read aloud voice that is good enough to listen to for a full article. PDF handling is built in with annotation, highlighting, inking and a text to speech pass, so PDFs opened from the web do not need to bounce out to a separate reader.
The rest is standard modern browser territory done competently. Profile separation with independent extensions, cookies and history per profile. Tracking prevention with three strictness levels. Collections for gathering pages and snippets into a named group that syncs. Split screen for two pages side by side in one tab. A downloads flyout that stays out of the way. Password and payment autofill that can be turned off entirely if you would rather keep credentials somewhere else.
Read the whole list before you start. Most of the reports that come into the desk about this title turn out to be a step taken out of order.
| Processor | Any 1.6 GHz or faster dual core processor |
|---|---|
| Memory | 4 GB minimum, 8 GB for heavy tab use |
| Storage | 1 GB free |
| Graphics | Any DirectX 11 capable adapter for hardware accelerated rendering |
| Display | 1280 by 720 or higher |
Turn off startup boost if you do not want browser processes alive after you close the last window.
Extensions from the Chrome catalogue install normally, but you have to allow extensions from other stores once in settings first.
| Title | Microsoft Edge Stable |
|---|---|
| Developer | Microsoft |
| Version | 151.0.4129.72 |
| Category | Internet & Downloaders |
| Release type | Full version |
| Operating system | Windows 11, Windows 10 (64 bit) |
| Architecture | x64 |
| Interface language | Multilingual |
| Archive size | 168 MB |
| File name | microsoft_edge_stable_151.0.4129.72_x64.rar |
| Shelf updated | 2 days ago |
| Total downloads | 104,346 |
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