Microsoft is reportedly building a Chromium-based replacement for Edge

Microsoft’s default web browsers haven’t been having a good time in recent years, with Microsoft’s attempt to revitalise their internet browsing experience with Edge seemingly falling on deaf ears. 

While Edge does have its advantages, it has failed to achieve high market share, with most PC builders using it exclusively for downloading their preferred browser. 

Sources over at Windows Central have informed the publication about Microsoft’s plans to replace Edge, with a Chromium-based browser that is currently known as Project Anaheim. 

Today, Chromium is used by Google’s Chrome browser, Opera and Amazon’s Silk browser (for Fire TV devices). Using a version of Chromium will allow Microsoft to offer more similarities to Chrome, enabling web pages to behave in a similar way to other popular browsers. This eliminates some of the oddities that some web pages experience under EdgeHTML. 

If this report is correct, Project Anaheim will eventually replace Edge as Microsoft’s default browser, with recent code commits to Google’s Chrome browser suggesting that the company hopes to increase the performance of Chrome/Chromium on ARM devices. 

  
While most PC users will be glad to see Microsoft replace Edge with something better, it is hard to know whether or not the Microsoft will find success with a new Chromium-based browser. Yes, it will act a lot more like other internet browsers, but will that be enough to gain marketshare/mindshare? 

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