Microsoft Edge is a fashion browser. Things as they are. And for two conflicting reasons: Microsoft is doing very well, but also very badly with its brand new web browser. The funny thing is that it has been going the same way for years, almost since it announced the jump to Chromium as a technology base.

Since then, Microsoft Edge has stood out for better or for worse, it will bear repeating. foreverbecause you can see that they put – and are putting – a lot of effort into the development, and instead of making a cheap replica of Google Chrome, they built a really powerful browser packed with exclusive features which provide users with added value in areas such as personalization, security, shopping, productivity… There is no need to go into detail, as starting to list the features of Microsoft Edge would make this article too long.

To mention a few of the most prominent ones, the collection, the shopping assistant or the new integration with Bing’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence are three strengths of the browser compared to the competition.

Negative? Roughly, Microsoft’s ways to promote browser usage when not trying to push the envelope, cutting-edge software, with the exception of respecting the privacy of its users. Google Chrome style and worse. Something that is not understood because what they are doing is tarnishing the image of an otherwise excellent app.

Can good have bad? It can, and it is because, as we are also used to at Microsoft, the theme of minimalism is not well mastered and there is a tendency to put more things, not less, into the software of corporations. We are talking about bloatware Yes, although to be honest, the one built into Windows 11, to give a recent example, is not the same as many of Microsoft Edge’s features.

Looks like Microsoft will let you remove some Edge features: https://t.co/t1HbJS6nhS
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I wonder what other features will be included in this section in the future… Games? E-tree? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/9aQC146rJM

– Leopeva64 (@Leopeva64) April 26, 2023

In each case Love Microsoft Edge but miss some of its features? As you can see in the tweet above, the browser developers are aware of this issue and are working to fix it. How exactly they will do this – or what features are considered “optional” – is still unclear, but this option can already be found in the Canary version (the unstable and development version of the browser).

Ergo, how long it will take for this feature to reach the majority of Microsoft Edge users is unknown, but it is not expected to be soon. It is understood that this possibility It will not only help to get things that are not used out of the way, but it will also help to lighten the load on the browseras is otherwise obvious.

So out of the blue, it looks like something similar to Vivaldi, where you can enable and disable built-in productivity apps (mail manager, calendar, RSS reader) by checking or unchecking an option. And of course, you get rid of everything you don’t use: out of sight and out of your computer’s memory.