We are tailoring the overall look and feel to match what macOS users expect from apps on this platform. 'Microsoft Edge for macOS will offer the same new browsing experience that we're previewing on Windows, with user experience optimizations to make it feel at home on a Mac,' wrote the Edge team in a post to a company blog. Microsoft asserted that Edge for the Mac would be more than a quick port of the Windows version. So far, Microsoft has issued Canary for macOS and Canary and Dev for Windows 10. (Edge browsers for Android and iOS already existed.) Microsoft did not pin a deadline to the 'full-Chromium' Edge's production release, but said the browser would, unlike its predecessor, be a cross-platform app that supports Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7, as well as macOS. Chromium is the open-source project, dominated by Google, credited with developing the rendering and JavaScript engines that powered Chrome, then later, other browsers including Opera, Brave and Vivaldi. The browser, though, was announced late last year, when Microsoft said it would abandon its own technologies in favor of remaking Edge as a Chromium-based application. Microsoft first previewed the reworked Edge for Windows 10 in mid-April. Beta and Stable builds appear every six weeks. Canary, the least reliable, is updated daily, while the Dev version refreshes weekly. Like Google Chrome, Edge releases in multiple builds representing increasingly more stable versions of the browser. Microsoft on Monday returned to the Mac browser market when it released the first public preview of its revamped Edge browser for macOS.ĭelivery of the 'Canary' edition for macOS came two weeks after prodigious Windows leaker WalkingCat, also known by his Twitter account tweeted the download links for the Canary and more polished Dev builds of Edge for the Mac.

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