One less browser engine for developers to deal with They have assured users that Edge will still look and function more or less the same, but changes are inevitable. The reasons for this are varied, but among the main ones is definitely the EdgeHTML engine used to power it.Īfter trying for a long time to make things work, Microsoft has finally relented and switched to Chromium and its Blink engine. While Edge was an ambitious project, it failed to convince enough users to return to the default Windows browser. Ever since Mozilla Firefox, followed by Google Chrome, started luring users away from Internet Explorer, Microsoft has been trying to bring them back.
