Ramblings of an old Doc
Or, you can wait a bit longer
Published on January 20, 2020 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

The new Edge is here, promising more extensions and a far better search engine, based on Chromium, the same engine powering Google's Chrome browser. This makes it more compatible with websites other, less popular browsers have problems with. 

This also means that after granting Edge permission, it can use Chrome extensions from the Google Playstore, which has far more than Microsoft's. 

Downloading and installing are explained in the linked article, above. You don't have to uninstall the old Edge which is based on MS's engine. 

Over the next weeks and months, MS will be pushing the new Edge. You can wait, and it might even be better to do so as just now it probably still has bugs, but if you like being on the bleeding edge, so to speak, go for it!

 

New Chromium based Edge download link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge


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on Jan 21, 2020

DrJBHL


Quoting Jafo,






Quoting Frogboy,



I am shocked to hear myself say this but I have switched from Chrome to Edge.



Might just be doing the same....on Win 7 ....



 

This just arrived in my notifications...for anyone considering using IE with W7.

https://www.ghacks.net/category/internet-explorer-browsing/

on Jan 21, 2020

I have W7 and I am using Google. I am thinking of trying edge.
I also have IE installed. Should I remove both these other browsers if I install edge?

Macca

on Jan 21, 2020

Aussie007

I have W7 and I am using Google. I am thinking of trying edge.
I also have IE installed. Should I remove both these other browsers if I install edge?

No. 

on Jan 21, 2020

Aussie007

I have W7 and I am using Google. I am thinking of trying edge.
I also have IE installed. Should I remove both these other browsers if I install edge?

You can uninstall Google Chrome if you wish, but Internet Explorer is integrated into the OS and it could cause problems if you try to remove it.

on Jan 21, 2020

If anyone is using a Google Chromecast and unable to cast using the new Microsoft Edge browser there is a fix.

on Jan 21, 2020

Does it not work with Windowblinds?

on Jan 21, 2020

GregII

Does it not work with Windowblinds?
Not on my computer running Windows 10 Home.

on Jan 21, 2020

ALMonty

Save a system restore point before you install this. It wrote over MS Edge and wipe out all my favorites. My last restore point was 5 days ago and I lost everything I did. 

No body or is it just me being stupid?   

on Jan 21, 2020

ALMonty

No body or is it just me being stupid?
Bad luck, I guess. Favs are there on my Edge.

on Jan 21, 2020

I had to save MS Edge favorites as an html and import them into the new Edge. Yes it doesn't skin and the icon on the taskbar is just a square white box.  

on Jan 21, 2020

Al, I have a normal icon.  

 

 

Victechnical

Quoting Aussie007,reply 17
I have W7 and I am using Google. I am thinking of trying edge.
I also have IE installed. Should I remove both these other browsers if I install edge?
You can uninstall Google Chrome if you wish, but Internet Explorer is integrated into the OS and it could cause problems if you try to remove it.

 

You can disable Internet Explorer in Programs and Features if you wanted to.

 

It is under "turn Windows features on or off" at the left.

 

on Jan 21, 2020

Jim I got it back. Edge install as a program not as an app. I right clicked on the shortcut and chose change icon and navigated to the edge.exe file. I used that icon. All is well.

on Jan 21, 2020

Well I got this latest version of Edge and I don't mind it at all.  In fact, I quite like it.... not that I'm ready to give up on Firefox just yet.  I've been using it for about 20 years and I've become quite accustomed to it, so I'll keep using it as my primary browser and use Edge as my backup browser.

on Jan 21, 2020

OK
So I installed edge and have a couple of problems.
I have not been able to get my RoboForm Toolbar on it yet.
When I am using Window Blinds I do not have Min, Max, or Close buttons. They are there when I revert to Windows default desktop.
Window Blinds version 10.74 windows 7 version

Macca

 

on Jan 21, 2020

Aussie007, I could be wrong, but I think you should still be using the windows 10 version of WindowBlinds.

 

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