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Guess I don't see any reason for a 4th (and even more if you consider Chrome variants) browser to exist.

It takes a lot to make me get off of Safari. About the only time I do is when I must have Flash for streaming services and then I use Chrome's integrated flash support.

I guess if MS adds all of the proprietary features of Edge on Windows so that macOS users can run locked in Windows web apps that might be a highly attractive reason but it seems they're not going to be doing that.

I'm wondering if they're using integrated Keychain support? I guess if it's build on Chromium perhaps not. Frankly for me that's a non starter.

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> I'm wondering if they're using integrated Keychain support?

ah sorry can't answer that, the first thing I did was checking out 1password. I mostly replace 1password as the password manager for my browsers.

They don't support keychain for the individual sites (though it does use the keychain password like chrome to encrypt site logon credentials) but it does use it for application passwords. Like logging into Edge itself for the user data syncing.

AFAIK keychain access is only allowed for apps distributed through the Mac AppStore since a while. This is why Chrome removed the feature.

There's nothing in the developer section

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security

that specifies this restriction. Maybe I couldn't find the reference.

I'm pretty sure the Chrome folks removed it because they didn't think the Keychain was secure (at least from the readings I've done).

That's not true at all.

All macOS apps have full access to the Security framework in macOS including Keychain and keychain element management.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security

the best reason for Edge/Mac to exist is simple: developers, developers, developers.

Except Edge isn't a Mac-looking application. It starts with Chromium which isn't a standard Mac UI and gloms on plenty of stuff that's not Mac-like either.

What's gonna be the advantage of using Edge over Chrome from a developer standpoint?

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