14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has become one of the biggest contributors to the Chromium engine after embracing it for the modern version of Microsoft Edge, so naturally, the Redmond-based software giant has helped improve it quite a lot lately.
The company joined the Chromium project in November 2019 when the very first contribution has been made, and since then, it has continuously helped make browsers running on this engine much better.
And as we know already, there are already plenty of Chromium browsers out there, as Microsoft Edge isn’t the only one using it, obviously. Google Chrome is the most famous of them all, and right now, it’s also the world’s number one browser with a market share that’s close to 70 percent. In other words, nearly 7 in 10 PCs out there run Google Chrome, despite coming with another default browser.
Other Chromium browsers include Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, and Opera.
Microsoft’s contributions
Statistics shared on Twitter by Eric Lawrence, who is part of the Microsoft Edge team, reveal that the Redmond-based firm participated in 1835 CLs from 161 contributors, and the areas that the company helped improve in the Chromium engine include accessibility, battery life, HTML form controls, media playback, Windows font rendering, layout and scrolling, HTML, JSON, and CSS modules.
Needless to say, Google Chrome is also one browser to benefit from all these improvements, but on the other hand, the big winner here is obviously Microsoft Edge.
The company has made it a priority to turn Edge into the right browser for everybody, and the migration to Chromium allowed it to bring the application to more platforms than before.
So right now, the Chromium-powered Microsoft Edge is available not only on Windows 10, but also on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, macOS, and even Linux (currently in preview stage).