Edge Canary is now based on Chromium 79

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With a new build of Edge Canary, which is 79.0.278.0, Microsoft has made the switch to the newest Blink version included in Chromium 79.

Chromium is an open-source project that  features a very powerful fast web rendering engine "Blink" to make your browsing experience faster, safer, and easier. Chromium is the base for Google Chrome, which is the most popular web browser these days. It aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.

Besides Edge, there are plenty of other browsers that use Chromium's project as their base, including Opera and Vivaldi.

Traditionally, the change log is not available for the Canary branch. We can expect to see more details once a Chromium 79-based build reach the Dev branch, which is the only branch that has the official change log. After that, we should get a Chromium 78-based Beta version of Edge.

As you may already know, Microsoft is currently using three channels to deliver updates to Edge Insiders. The Canary channel receives updates daily (except Saturday and Sunday), the Dev channel is getting updates weekly, and the Beta channel is updated every 6 weeks. The stable channel is also on its way to users.

Actual Microsoft Edge Versions

The actual pre-release versions of Edge Chromium at the moment of this writing are as follows:

I have covered many Edge tricks and features in the following post:

Hands-on with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge

Also, see the following updates.

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Author: Sergey Tkachenko

Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer who started Winaero back in 2011. On this blog, Sergey is writing about everything connected to Microsoft, Windows and popular software. Follow him on Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube.

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