Earlier this month, it released the first Chromium-based version of Edge for download, and later this year, it'll start distributing it more broadly through its Windows Update service.Ĭhromium is controlled by Google, but it's open-source software that anyone can use and modify. Microsoft abandoned its own browser engine, EdgeHTML, and for more than a year has been building a new version of its Edge browser instead atop Google's Chromium. That number has now risen to 1,900, Microsoft said Monday. The tab-management update is among more than 1,600 such changes Microsoft has made to Chromium, though you aren't likely to notice most of them directly. This collegiality is an example of how open-source collaboration can work. It's useful if you like to group related tabs into a single window.
The tab management feature in Edge lets you right-click on a single tab or a group of tabs you've selected then send them to a new or different Edge browser window. Google liked the idea and it's now headed to Chrome, too. The change this month, flagged on Reddit on Saturday and spotted by the Verge, governs an Edge feature that lets people transfer a group of browser tabs from one browser window to another. It's an illustration of the power of open-source software - and of the increasing influence of Google's browser technology on the web overall. Google's Chrome browser will work a little differently when it's time to move tabs around thanks to software Microsoft has contributed to the Chromium project that now underlies both companies' browsers.
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