Why Microsoft's new version of Edge could be a legit Chrome rival

Microsoft's Chromium-powered version of Edge, codename 'Anaheim,' leaked over the weekend, giving us a first look at what Microsoft is cooking up.

Last weekend, an early build of Microsoft's new Chromium-powered version of Edge leaked online, giving us a first proper look at what Microsoft is working on. Announced last year, Microsoft is rebuilding Edge from the ground up using the open-source Chromium project, but many questions had been left unanswered. Now that a build has leaked, we have a much better idea of what Microsoft is doing with Edge now that it's moving to Chromium, and the early builds we've seen are more than promising.

Codenamed "Anaheim", this new version of Edge is a complete rebuild of the web browser. It's no longer based on Chakra core and doesn't use Microsoft's own rendering engine known as EdgeHTML. It uses the same rendering engine found in Chrome, meaning Edge now handles websites like YouTube and TweetDeck quickly, without any lag or performance issues. Microsoft has also managed to make Anaheim less resource intensive, using less RAM than both Chrome and the old version of Edge.

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