Introducing Microsoft Edge Beta: Be one of the first to try it now

I have been using this for a few weeks now, I quite like it. It seems quicker to load pages than Chrome which was my go to for years.

Phone Man said:

Had to back away from Edge Beta. Sites are slow to load and sometimes it flashes a screen that there is no internet then loads the page. Back on Firefox for now and all is fine, but will check Edge Beta from time to time.

Jim

I got this reply from MS a few days ago.



I will give Edge Beta another try after the next update. I have 77.0.235.25 which had this problem.

Jim

I just got this:


We’ve updated you to the latest build.

This is Microsoft Edge Dev Build 78.0.276.2

Have read all 9 pages of this post and also done some googling, but cannot find out if downloading the new Edge automatically uninstalls or disables the 'normal' old Edge browser. If it keeps the installation of the old Edge, are you able to use both versions of Edge or just the new Chrome based one? Thanks!

Hi catspyjamas,

I'm using the beta but the "normal" old version is still available (and can be used) in my Start Menu (Win10 1903 - Build 18362.356).
Hope this helps ...

throkr said:

Hi catspyjamas,

I'm using the beta but the "normal" old version is still available (and can be used) in my Start Menu (Win10 1903 - Build 18362.356).
Hope this helps ...

Thanks, it does help! Just wanted to check in case I found I was stuck with the new version and it wasn't to my liking.

catspyjamas said:

Have read all 9 pages of this post and also done some googling, but cannot find out if downloading the new Edge automatically uninstalls or disables the 'normal' old Edge browser. If it keeps the installation of the old Edge, are you able to use both versions of Edge or just the new Chrome based one? Thanks!

Installing Chromium Edge doesn't affect original Edge as both run separately.