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More information about Edge Mobile is available here, however not many technical details (e.g. whether the Android version is just a WebView or if it's the real Edge)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-edge-mobil...

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"On iOS, we are using the WebKit engine, as provided by iOS in the WKWebView control. That means that from a compatibility perspective, Microsoft Edge for iOS should match the version of Safari that is currently available for iOS.

On Android, we are using the Blink rendering engine from the Chromium browser project."

Source of those statements: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/10/05/microsoft-edg...

So what you really getting is a UI wrapper around the built-in browsers. The only advantage is synced passwords and bookmarks and some Microsoft specific apps.

This is the case with all of the browsers on iOS since Apple doesn't allow other rendering engines in the app store.

But not on Android. They could port their engine there, like Mozilla Firefox.

So it's more like Faux-Edge. I guess it still provides a benefit for Edge users who want to sync their data and whatnot. It's just not too interesting beyond that.

At least Firefox Focus (based on Chromium, too) is a "private by default" kind of browser, who those who care about that experience and don't want to mess with settings or don't know how to set it up so that it has maximum privacy. Speaking of which, it would be nice if Firefox Focus also provided an easy-to-use option to enable browsing over Tor.

All browsers on iOS are not using their own render engine, Apple doesn't allow it.

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