The WebGL engine developed by Microsoft is open source.

The D3D11 backend for ANGLE has been optimized and refined, intermediate layers to translate OpenGL ES calls to OpenGL, Direct3D 9/11, Desktop GL and Vulkan. While working on a new browser, Microsoft joined the community to develop Chromium and began to return to the project created for Edge enhancements and bug fixes.įor example, enhancements related to technologies for people with disabilities, touch screen control, support for the ARM64 architecture, improved scrolling capabilities, and multimedia processing have been carried over to Chromium. It is also highlighted that a experimental mode called 'Super Duper Secure' which is also available if it is not enabled in the following path 'edge: // flags # enable-super-duper-secure-mode', which disables JIT and enables hardware protection mechanisms not compatible with JIT CET (Controlflow- Enforcement Technology), ACG (Arbitrary Code Guard) and CFG (Control Flow Guard) for processes that process web content.įor those who do not know the browser, you should know that Microsoft started developing a new version of the Edge browser, translated to the Chromium engine and developing as a multiplatform product. Inside the included features mention is made of support for connecting to a Microsoft account, a way to selectively clear cookies and delete various session data when the browser is closed, the ability to attach annotations to pages, three blocking modes for web trackers and visitor tracking code, synchronization between devices, parental mode, SmartScreen protection against malicious activity, vertical tabs, grouping of tabs, collections, an interface to compare prices in online stores and the 'reader' mode. This new release is based on the Chromium 95 engine (recently released), Edge for Linux supports all the standard features previously available for Windows and macOS.

Recently Microsoft unveiled through an announcement the official launch of the first stable version of your new 'Edge' web browser for Linux.

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