At the end of last year, Microsoft announced a major update to the Edge browser, the main innovation of which was the transition to the Chromium engine. At the Build 6 conference that opened on May 2019, the Redmond software giant officially unveiled an updated web browser, including a version for macOS. And yesterday it was discovered that an early release of Edge (Canary 76.0.151.0) for Mac computers became available for download from the official Microsoft website, although the company did not announce this, and on the Microsoft Edge Insider page you can download the distribution kit for Windows 10 only. , everyone who wants to install the application should take into account that this is not the final version, which means that bugs and non-working functions are not excluded in it.
Microsoft Edge for Mac Canary 76.0.151.0
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Note that this is not the first Microsoft browser to appear on the "apple" computer platform. Back in 1996, the corporation released Internet Explorer for Mac. At first, the browser for Macintosh was developed on the basis of IE for Windows, but starting with the fifth version, which was released in 2000, it was based on the Tasman engine created from scratch. Three years later, after the release of Internet Explorer for Mac 5.2.3, Microsoft stopped updating the product, focusing on developing IE for its own operating system.
Let us remind you that Edge, based on the Chromium engine, has received a number of interesting innovations. These include IE mode, which allows you to launch Internet Explorer directly in the Edge tab; new privacy settings and the “Collections” feature, which makes it possible to collect and organize materials from web pages and export them to other applications. We talked in more detail about the features of the new Microsoft product in our separate . In addition to Windows 10 and macOS, the updated Edge browser will be available to users of Windows 7 and 8, Android and iOS.