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Microsoft says Microsoft Edge users will notice improved performance and a smaller disk footprint because the web browser now automatically compresses disk caches. "Beginning with Microsoft Edge 102 on Windows, Microsoft Edge automatically compresses disk caches on devices that meet eligibility checks, to ensure the compression will be beneficial without degrading performance," the Microsoft Edge Team said Wednesday.
Microsoft has followed Google's lead and issued an update for its Edge browser following the arrival of a WebRTC zero-day. Microsoft remained tight-lipped on the matter, merely saying that since Edge "Ingests" Chromium, the vulnerabilities had been addressed.
Microsoft appears to be planning a VPN-like solution for its Edge browser judging by a support page for the upcoming feature. The change is described as a "Preview feature." It has yet to show up on our Canary and Dev versions of Microsoft's browser, however.
Microsoft is working on a built-in VPN functionality for the Edge browser called 'Edge Secure Network', but there's a catch - it is not a proper replacement for your VPN. Edge's Secure Network is powered by Cloudflare - one of the most trusted DNS hosts in the industry - and it aims to protect your device and sensitive data as you browse. The feature is in the early stage of development available to select users in Edge Canary and it's not a full-fledged VPN service offered in rival browsers like Opera.
Microsoft has tweaked the Microsoft Edge sleeping tabs feature to improve the web browser's overall responsiveness and performance. "Beginning in Microsoft Edge 100, we've updated sleeping tabs to enable pages that are sharing a browsing instance with another page to now go to sleep," the Microsoft Edge Team said earlier this week.
Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have been updated to patch a security flaw an exploit for which is said to be in the wild. Chromium is at the heart of Google Chrome as well as Microsoft Edge.
Microsoft Edge is now displaying in-browser alerts that discourage users from downloading Google Chrome by bashing the popular browser. A few weeks later, Google began telling Microsoft Edge users to switch to Chrome to use browser extensions more securely.
Microsoft has quietly added a 'Super Duper Secure Mode' to the Microsoft Edge web browser, a new feature that brings security improvements without significant performance losses. Users can enable Super Duper Secure Mode after upgrading Edge to stable version 96.0.1054.29 or later, and they can toggle between Balanced and Strict modes for different levels of security increase.
Microsoft announced today that the Chromium-based Edge web browser is now generally available on the Linux platform via the stable channel. In September 2019, Redmond asked for feedback from Linux users on the release of the Edge browser for Linux to flesh out the requirements needed for an official launch.
We've been using Edge on Linux for quite some time, first in Dev Build form, then in its Beta flavour. As you probably know, Edge no longer has Microsoft's in-house HTML and JavaScript engines at its core, but is based, like many other contemporary browsers, on the Google-derived open source Chromium project.