Microsoft Edge is the browser of fashion. Things as they are. And it is for two conflicting reasons: Microsoft is doing very well, but also very badly with its brand new web browser. The funny thing is that it has been going the same way for years, almost since it announced the jump to Chromium as a technological base.
Since then, Microsoft Edge has stood out for better and for worse, it bears repeating. for goodbecause you can see that they have put -and do put- a lot of effort into development and, instead of making a cheap replica of Google Chrome, they have built a really powerful browser packed with exclusive features that provide added value to users in areas such as personalization, security, purchases, productivity… There is no need to go into detail, because starting to list Microsoft Edge functions would make this article very long.
To mention a few of the most outstanding, the collections, the shopping assistant or the new integration with the artificial intelligence of ChatGPT in Bing are three strong points of the browser compared to the competition.
The negative? Roughly, Microsoft’s ways to promote, when not to try to enforce, browser use, a top-notch piece of software, except for respecting the privacy of its users. In the style of Google Chrome, and even worse. Something that is not understood because what they are doing is tarnishing the image of an otherwise excellent application.
Now, can the good have something bad? It can, and it is that as we are also used to at Microsoft, the theme of minimalism is not well mastered and the tendency in the corporation’s software is to put more things, not less. We talk about bloatware Yes, although to be honest, the one that is embedded in Windows 11, to give a recent example, is not the same as the many functions of Microsoft Edge.
It looks like Microsoft will let you remove some of Edge’s features: https://t.co/t1HbJS6nhS
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I wonder what other features will be included in that section in the future… Games? E-tree? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/9aQC146rJM– Leopeva64 (@Leopeva64) April 26, 2023
In any case Do you like Microsoft Edge, but have some of its features left over? As you can see in the tweet above, the developers of the browser are aware of the problem and are working to fix it. How exactly they will do this – or what features are considered “optional” – is still unclear, but the option can already be found in the Canary version (the unstable and development version of the browser).
Ergo, how long it will take for this function to reach the bulk of Microsoft Edge users is not known, but it is not expected to be soon. What is understood is that this option It will not only help to get things out of the way that are not used, but it will also help to lighten the browseras is otherwise obvious.
So out of the blue, it looks like something similar to Vivaldi, where you can activate and deactivate the integrated productivity applications (mail manager, calendar, RSS reader) by checking or unchecking an option. And everything you don’t use you get rid of, of course: from sight and from computer memory.
