Download Microsoft Edge Official Builds (New Chromium-Based Browser)

Microsoft had appear adopting Chromium for the development of its Edge browser back in December. The company's collaboration with Google on its Microsoft Edge browser is at present seeing some daylight with the first preview builds of the new browser dropping today. Developers and interested users can now download Microsoft Edge preview builds to start testing the upcoming browser.

"In these first builds we are very much focused on the fundamentals and have not even so included a wide range of feature and language support that will come up afterwards," Microsoft said. "Yous'll offset to meet differences from the electric current Microsoft Border including subtle design finishes, back up for a broader pick of extensions and the ability to manage your sign-in profile."

"We expect frontward to people starting to kick the tires and will exist refining the feature set over time based on the feedback we receive."

Download Microsoft Edge preview builds for Windows ten

The beginning Programmer and Canary test builds are available but for 64-fleck Windows 10 and Windows 10 Due south. macOS and older versions of Windows will receive Microsoft Edge previews in the coming weeks. You can download the builds from here.

Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President, Windows, explained that the Canary builds are preview builds that will be updated daily and the Developer builds volition be updated weekly. "Beta builds will come online in the time to come," he added.

Belfiore said that the visitor has also begun to make contributions to the Chromium open up source project. "These include areas like accessibility, touch, ARM64 and others," he wrote. "We're working directly with the teams at Google and the broader Chromium customs on this work and appreciate the collaborative and open discussions. We look forward to continued engagement with the community to progress Chromium in these areas and others."

Those who had installed the recently leaked builds of the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge are advised to uninstall the leaked builds earlier going for the officially released previews. The initial builds may experience a lot like Chrome, but things will change once the focus shifts from fundamentals to design.