14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft Edge is a browser that’s constantly evolving, and while it has already reached its maturity and is available on so many platforms out there, the application keeps getting feature after feature after feature.
The latest such addition is support for QR codes that can be used for sharing websites. Now available in the Canary build of Edge, this new capability makes sharing websites so much easier when a mobile device is around.
As per Neowin, the new feature is hiding under an experimental flag called “Enable sharing page via QR code,” so right now, Microsoft just wants to let users try it out before making it available for everybody later this year in the stable build of the browser.
How the new feature works
In case you’re wondering who needs a QR code to share websites and why, the answer is as simple as it could be.
Just imagine that you want to load a specific URL on your mobile device – it doesn’t have to be something generic, such as example.com, but a more complex link that’s not so easy to type in the browser.
If you already loaded the site in the desktop browser, the easiest way to send it to your mobile device isn’t necessarily via email, messaging apps, or other applications, but by simply scanning a QR code generated with this new feature.
It goes without saying the QR code implementation is still in its early days, so it’ll take a while until it launches in the production build of Microsoft Edge. If anything, the feature first showed up last year in a Chromium Gerrit, so it’s pretty clear the software giant isn’t necessarily in a rush to bring it to users out there, no matter the platform they’re currently on.