We did this by opening up five tabs in each browser with the same sites in each.

We also did some ad-hoc testing on system resource usage.

Of course, these are just benchmarks but even then we'd expect Microsoft's newer, leaner browser to perform better than this. Edge performs reasonably but doesn't really make a rise above Internet Explorer's speeds. BrowserĬhrome is generally quicker than its Microsoft rivals, which is a big change from only a few weeks ago when we originally ran the benchmarks on a pre-release version of Windows 10, where they were more even across the tests. The results as you can see say more about how hard it is to test browsers than they do about the browsers themselves. We ran some benchmarks on the release versions of Edge and Internet Explorer plus their big rival Chrome, in order to see which was quickest. That's no bad thing, as Internet Explorer has been somewhat bogged down by support for such old standards. It has also removed support for a lot of outdated web standards, such as ActiveX, so it should be slimmer and faster. The new browser will integrate with a lot of Microsoft's other services, such as the Cortana personal assistant (yes, another Halo reference). Google has made a big enough success of Chrome that no-one is worried about a bundled browser being monopolistic. The new app will be the default browser for PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones running Windows 10. Thankfully, Microsoft has a brand new browser for its new operating system – called 'Project Spartan' in development (a reference to the company's Halo games), it's been officially dubbed Microsoft Edge.Īll the best Windows 10 features and how to use them

Windows 10 has many new fancy features, you can read all about them and get them yourself by reading our Windows 10 roundup, but as with many operating systems it will most often be used to simply launch a web browser.

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