
In the early days of Edge, Microsoft removed 220,000 lines of code from IE for Edge, and with it, compatibility for technologies like ActiveX and Browser Helper Objects. Microsoft Edge initially shipped with a then-new rendering engine called EdgeHTML, but this was dropped in 2019 in favour of Blink when Microsoft decided to rebuild its browser on Chromium. In fact, it beat Chrome and Firefox in the majority of our benchmark tests, proving that it can go toe-to-toe with the biggest in the business. PerformanceĮdge was initially sneered at by many for being clunky and slow, but it's not as much of a slowpoke as you may think.

There's also a 'Reading List' feature that syncs your content between different devices as well as a useful 'Reading Mode', which makes it easier to read the content you're viewing on devices.
