Custom (you configure the page manually).

Talking about tabs, Microsoft Edge has four view options for its new tab page: This menu lists all the open tabs, including the pinned ones so that you can manage them.

It offers a better way to manage tabs by giving you the menu option Tabs. With more than 20 tabs open in both Edge and Chrome, I found Edge to be responding better when compared to other browsers, including the default Safari that comes with Mac. Though running on Chromium, Edge is better than the Google browser and Firefox on Mac OS: High Sierra and Mojave. You can further configure privacy under the site permissions option in Settings. The SmartScreen Defender tells you if a download is malicious before downloading it to your Mac. This feature stops users from opening websites with malware or spyware code. You’ll see plenty of options in the right column where you can customize the privacy features per your wish.Įdge carries the SmartScreen feature that was introduced back in the 2000s. Click on three dots at the top right corner of the Edge window and from the resulting window, click Privacy and Services in the left pane. You can set privacy to Basic, Balanced, and Strict. It allows you to set a privacy level for your browsing. Microsoft is taking both security and privacy features pretty seriously in Edge (Chromium). Please remember that speed uses hardware acceleration and thus, is also dependent on the hardware of your Mac. If I compare it to Safari on Mac, Edge is as fast as Safari when it comes to loading websites. It is faster than Google Chrome browser because probably Microsoft Edge uses the same rendering engine as Google Chrome. The new Microsoft Edge for Mac OS has a decent speed. This doesn’t leave any scope for inaccurate menu selections by touch. The sub-menus have a cool font and allow you to tap on the options by providing you a good spacing among the menu options. The context menus also look neater than Firefox. There is ample spacing among icons on the new tab page and the favorites bar. There is no clutter as in previous versions of Edge. The user interface on Edge for Mac OS is clean and self-describing. This review simply lists the interesting features of Edge for Mac. Please note that this is not a comparison between Microsoft Edge for macOS and Microsoft Edge for Windows 10.

This post checks out what all features it provides to its Mac OS users. After changing it from Chakra to Chromium, Microsoft released the Chromium-based Edge browser for macOS too.

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