You save a page as an app by going to the menu (click on … in the upper right corner), selecting “Apps” and then “Install this site as an app”.Īlthough I’m not sold, a lot of people like Edge’s new Vertical Tabs feature that allows you to view your open tabs on the left edge of the browser rather than on top. Chrome has a similar feature called Create Shortcut, but the Edge solution is more robust. Once you do this, the site can be accessed from your desktop or taskbar just as if it were its own application.
#MICROSOFT EDGE VS CHROME VS INSTALL#
Just click on the + icon to the right of the browser’s address bar to bring up the Collections menu.Īnother handy Edge feature allows Windows users to install websites as if they were apps. Creating and adding to a collection is easy. You could, for example, have a collection of news sites, health sites, entertainment sites, etc.
#MICROSOFT EDGE VS CHROME VS SERIES#
One of my favorite Edge features is Collections, which is kind of like bookmarking on steroids, allowing you to create a series of separate collections where you can store links to favorite websites. There are reports that Google is working on making Chrome more memory and energy efficient.ĭespite their common technology, Chrome and Edge offer different features and here - once again - Edge has the edge. You probably won’t notice it in most situations but if you have a lot of tabs open, you may see your system slow down or run out of battery sooner if it’s not plugged in. Chrome is infamous for being a resource hog. While performance may be similar, Edge beats out Chrome when it comes to memory and energy use. For all practical purposes, these two browsers - which do rely on the same site rendering technology - are tied. I’ve run both side by side and have seen Chrome load some pages faster and Edge win on others, but that could be due to other factors like the speed of the site’s servers. I’ve seen some benchmark tests give the nod to Chrome, while most give it to Edge. Speed of rendering pages is a big deal with browsers, but fortunately, both Chrome and Edge do a good job in this arena. So, if I create a favorite on my PC, that favorite is also available on my smartphone and other devices. The advantage of synching is that your settings in one device are automatically carried over to another. Chrome is a bit more advanced in synching even more settings and appears to synch a bit faster. And both browsers can sync your favorite sites, passwords, history and extensions. Google, which makes most of its money from advertising, doesn’t offer that level of control, though it will let you block third party cookies that are created and stored by sites other than those you are visiting.īoth browsers work on most platforms including Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. It’s quite possible for one to get new features or performance enhancements that the other doesn’t have, followed by a new version of either browser that could again change the equation.Īlthough both Microsoft and Google claim to protect your privacy, Microsoft does more when it comes to allowing you to control tracking, which enables websites to record where you’ve been and display ads based on your online behavior.Įdge gives you three levels of tracking control: Basic, which allows most trackers across all sites, balanced (the default), which blocks trackers from sites you haven’t visited, and Strict, which blocks all trackers. Both browsers have their fans and detractors, and in this competitive world, both browsers are constantly being updated. Whether Edge is better than Chrome depends on who you ask and when you ask it.
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