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But whereas Chrome gathers quite a bit of information from a user’s desktop and can send crash reports and usage statistics to Google, Chromium doesn’t collect or transfer anywhere near as much data. Code from other developers enables features such as Adobe Flash Player, and the digital rights management (DRM) components that allow Chrome to play copyrighted content.Įach release of Chrome comes in four development channels, ranging from the most basic “Canary” build to a “Stable” version - all of which are more inherently stable than a browser built purely on Chromium. Though Google was the main contributor to the Chromium project when it first launched Chrome in September 2008, many developers not working for Google have added to it since then.įor the implementation of Chrome, Google adds its own proprietary code to Chromium, for internal processes like the browser’s automated update mechanism.

This makes Edge one of the latest in a growing family of Chromium based web browsers.īut what does this mean for Windows users - and what special features of the new Edge are worth knowing about? That’s what we’ll be exploring in this article.Ĭhromium is the open source software project that’s actually the foundation on which Google constructed Chrome. NOTE: The Gen 8.6 Technical Requirements Third-Party Software Version page section for Browsers will be updated to reflect the above soon.With Internet Explorer on the brink of death and its Edge browser close to it with a 4% share of the user base, Microsoft has finally completed the shift of the software’s rendering engine to Blink, the foundation for Google Chrome. If a customer identifies a defect, we will address the issue. Regardless, we will support the latest versions of Edge. It is in our plans to do a thorough certification testing at some point, though that is not a top priority for this year. While we haven't officially certified Edge Chromium, many test cases would have been covered in other test cycles. Along similar lines, we test with the latest browser versions. As such it's impractical for us to limit users to a specific version.

Users have little control of their browser versions and are commonly kept on the latest version through no decision of their own. You may have noticed that for Browsers, Tech Docs doesn't specify a version number. We have been using it in recent testing cycles, though we have not done a full certification. As of June, 2021, the latest information from Gen Product Management is:ġ) We previously certified and supported Edge Legacy, but since Microsoft expired its support on March 9, 2021, we can no longer support it.Ģ) We do support Edge Chromium.