Edge, the Microsoft browser that was intended to succeed Internet Explorer, has never lived up to what users deserve. However, with the arrival of the new Edge Chromium, things have changed. Microsoft ultimately made the most sensible move, moving to Chromium, and created a new web browser that would finally give users what they needed. Although all the potential that this browser hides is yet to be unleashed.
The new Edge brings us everything that the Google browser offers us, along with other functions and features developed and implemented by Microsoft. We are facing a fast, modern, private and, above all, secure browser. However, Microsoft is not satisfied with being the same as Google’s browser and competing as another alternative, but wants to go one step further. And, therefore, we will soon see a new feature that will make you even much faster: Startup Boost .
Edge will open faster than any other browser in Windows 10
The new “Startup Boost” mode will preload a series of processes and resources so that the browser opens much faster than any other program within this operating system. This new feature works in a similar way to how other programs do to speed up their startup. Edge loads a series of background processes when the operating system starts up so that, when we click on its icon, it is already “almost ready”, and in an instant it can be completely open.
These processes will be executed as a “low” priority (so as not to consume resources), and it will be a totally optional option that we can disable from the browser settings. Also, the Startup Boost mode will only work when the browser is launched from the taskbar, desktop, or from links in other applications, such as Windows search engine. If we don’t run it from here, it won’t run in this mode.
Soon in the Canary version, together with another version to save RAM
At the moment Microsoft has not made any statements about when it plans to have this new feature ready. However, everything indicates that it will arrive much earlier than we expect. In the coming weeks we will be able to see it in the Canary and Dev compilations, specifically in those that correspond to versions 88. Of course, only for Windows 10. The versions of the browser for macOS and Linux will not bring this possibility, at least for now.
Also, this will not be the only performance and usability news coming to the browser. Very soon we could see a new ” soft mode ” that will enable us the smoothness of scrolling that so characterized the classic versions of Edge in Windows 10. And also another function, ” sleeping tabs “, which, as the name suggests, will allow us to freeze, or sleep, the browser tabs that we do not use to save resources and improve performance.
Microsoft is taking improving its web browser very seriously. The new Edge Chromium is finally going to be the browser that any Windows 10 user deserves to always have at hand.
