


There are other browsers you can choose besides Chrome, of course–some people swear by Mozilla Firefox, although it still doesn’t offer multi-process and a secure sandbox to better take advantage of modern CPUs and protect against malicious websites. You’ll still need IE for some older sites–this is why IE is still included on Windows 10, even though Microsoft is pushing Edge. It offers browser sync, so you can easily synchronize your bookmarks and other information between the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, iOS, and Android phones.Ĭhrome is also widely supported–in fact, Chrome is arguably better supported by websites and web developers than Microsoft Edge is. Chrome won’t work if you require Internet Explorer to access an old website that requires Internet Explorer 6 or ActiveX controls, but most modern websites are likely to work better with Chrome. If has a wide variety of browser extensions that developers have been refining for years. Unlike Edge, Chrome is a mature piece of software complete with the years of interface refinement that Edge lacks. It’s a modern browser that runs on all widely used versions of Windows, including Windows 7. It offers speedy performance and compatibility with the latest browser and website features. This also means Edge won’t work on older versions of Windows, so Windows 7 users can’t even think about using it–they’ll need to switch to Chrome to get a modern browser.

This has given Edge some serious teething and performance problems. Edge is also based on Microsoft’s new “Universal Windows Platform” instead of the old Win32 desktop application platform.
