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Juli Clover<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Previously, the Microsoft Edge browser was available as a preview build<\/a>, but Microsoft has now graduated to an official beta. Microsoft’s beta channel represents more stable software than the preview channel.<\/p>\n

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The beta version of the Edge browser features new personalization options, such as tab page customization, dark theme support, and extensions from the Microsoft Insider Addons store or other Chromium-based web stores like the Chrome Web Store.<\/p>\n

Tracking prevention has been added to protect users from being tracked by websites, built-in Microsoft Search for Bing, and Internet Explorer mode with Internet Explorer 11 compatibility.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Paul Thurrott<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Thanks to the open-source nature of Chromium, Microsoft has had its first major and positive impact on Chrome, Google’s web browser. Thanks to a feature request from Microsoft, Google will issue a change to Chromium, the open-source project by which Google makes Chrome, that significantly improves battery life.<\/p>\n

“Today, media content is cached to disk during acquisition and playback,” Microsoft’s Shawn Pickett explains<\/a> in his change suggestion for Chromium. “Keeping the disk active during this process increases power consumption in general, and [it] can also prevent certain lower-power modes from being engaged in the operating system. Since media consumption is a high-usage scenario, this extra power usage has a negative impact on battery life. This change will prevent the caching of certain media content to disk for the purpose of improving device battery life for users.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

e_rationalist<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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[Microsoft’s] most major chromium impact is to move input handling off the main thread which has been empirically a massive success on Edge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n