Microsoft Edge 106 is the new version of the software giant’s web browser, the second most popular in the world in the cross-platform field and the second most prominent among the Chromium derivatives that abound on the market. After launching Chromium 106 and ignoring Chrome 106 for lack of news, we’ll take a look at it.

And even though both Chromium and Chrome 106 are versions because it was time – now the major browsers release a new version every month – than out of conviction, read for the desire to present news that interests the user, this is not, it means that those those who come after him are limited to producing extras, as we saw a few days ago with Brave 1.44, another Chromium derivative that arrived a little earlier and is well equipped for the rest.

On the other hand, it should be noted that Chromium/Chrome 106 brought news, some of which apply to all its derivatives, since they are optimizations and internal improvements of the browser, as well as security patches, and all this results in a full scale on the spectrum Chromium variants, which is pretty much everything today, with the exception of Firefox and Safari.

Speaking of Microsoft Edge 106, the new version of the browser gets all those optimizations and patches, and also integrates its own, as is usual in the Edge environment, introducing new policies and removing those that are outdated. Among other things, the one that is designed to be the most significant new feature of this release: enhancements Microsoft Defender SmartScreen supportwhich is now when it becomes really useful, even if it focuses mainly on the professional segment.

For more information, Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is a security feature that is deployed with the latest version of Microsoft’s operating system, Windows 11 22H2, which was already seen in Microsoft Edge 103, but with this version it starts with a new implementation of this feature. The new policy specifically replaces the previous one, which will be definitively removed in the next version of the browser.

Let’s get to the point, what is this Microsoft Defender SmartScreen and what does it have to do with Microsoft Edge? As we explained at the time, Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is «a cloud-based anti-phishing and anti-malware service that alerts users when they enter their credentials into malicious apps or hacked websites«. With such a history, it’s no wonder that its integration has extended to the web browser, starting with Microsoft Edge.

It also remains to be seen how exactly the integration works and to what extent other browsers are understood, knowing how Microsoft spends them in this regard.

Finally, Microsoft Edge 106 presents another innovation, of much less depth, such as expanding the number of work results in the address bar “from 2 to 4, offering greater visibility of the work content available to you when searching”; even if it is a change that depends on the activation of a policy available to system administrators or manual activation for users.