Category: Microsoft Edge

Apart from adding questionable and controversial features to its browser, Microsoft is working on numerous quality-of-life improvements for Edge. After all, the company tries hard and goes out of its way to convert every user to Edge on every device, regardless of its operating system or power level. The latest update for Microsoft Edge Canary has brought yet another performance-boosting feature that will help the browser operate at the optimal level without abusing your hardware.

Not so long ago, Microsoft unified Edge's codebase across all platforms, effectively bringing its browser on all operating systems under one umbrella. That change allowed developers to keep a single Edge version on all platforms and deliver new features faster. Still, it took Microsoft some time to release cross-platform features in Edge for all devices. One of such features is the built-in game Surf, which has only now arrived for Edge on iOS.

On September 2, 2021, Microsoft has added the Surf game to the Canary version of Edge for Android. Today, the Edge team announced that the game is now available in the stable release of the browser.

On December 2, Microsoft has started updating the Beta channel with a new version of Edge. The released version is 97.0.1072.21, and it is quite impressive. It finally allows opening digitally signed PDF files, brings Citations to Collections, and allows selecting which account to use when signing in to websites.

For some reason, Microsoft cannot comprehend that it does not need user-hostile practices to advertise its browser. Many users agree that Edge Chromium is one of the best alternatives to Chrome and its ever-growing list of privacy concerns. Edge no longer breaks when you try to load YouTube, and its users do not need to wait for six months or more to receive a feature update. Still, Microsoft thinks that is not enough. 

Several months ago, one of the updates for Google Chrome introduced tab search that allows users to find the needed tab in vast seas of open web pages they never close. Now the same feature has arrived in Microsoft Edge.

On the official Xbox News website, Microsoft announced a treat for xCloud users running the service in the Edge browser. The latest preview version of Edge Canary now can significantly improve clarity by sharpening the image.

You can play the Tux character exclusively on Linux when in the Surf Game of Edge browser.

Despite sharing a common rendering engine with Google Chrome, Microsoft had to cut off and replace many of Google's technologies and software pieces when developing a Chromium-based Edge. One of the things Microsoft ditched in Edge Chromium is a built-in Dino game you can play when the Internet is down (or using the chrome://dino URL). Instead of a somewhat primitive monochrome game in Chrome, Edge offers a much more engaging Surf game, a throwback to the classic Windows SkiFree game.

Desktop versions of Microsoft Edge can make your personal data safer by requiring additional authentication before auto-filling passwords, payment methods, and other info. This feature arrived in Edge earlier this year, and the browser allows enabling or disabling it. The same capability is now coming soon to Edge on Android.

Microsoft Edge Chromium has a hidden built-in game called Surf, where you can kill some time when the Internet is down. The company announced the game alongside the new logo for Edge back in early 2020. Now, on the eve of the 2021 holiday season, developers introduced a reskinned version of Edge Surf. Users can now swap a surfing board for a set of skis and hit the slopes in an attempt to set the highest score.