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Microsoft is increasingly proud of its Edge browser and continues to release new features.
Currently in stable version 125, Microsoft Edge It’s better than ever. As for innovations, Microsoft He starts by talking about the ones created in version 122, as they allowed everything to become much faster. According to the company, its browser’s UI is now more responsive, starting with the menu Browser basics Which displays performance information.
“The UI is now 42% faster for Edge users and 76% faster for those with a device without an SSD or less than 8GB of RAM.” The company says in a Publishing On your blog. As a demonstration, a video has been shared, which we can see below, in which the company compares the loading time of the browser essentials menu for Microsoft Edge in React and WebUI with JavaScript and WebUI 2.0, which is the new architecture behind the reported progress.
Although History, Downloads, and Wallet items will benefit from the responsiveness of WebUI 2.0 in the coming months, Microsoft confirms that the Favorites list experience is 40% faster since version 124 of the browser. The company explains that WebUI 2.0 is a coding architecture that uses smaller code packages and is part of a more modular user interface code. The use of JavaScript code for display is increasingly reduced.
“We have a repository of web components optimized for the performance of modern web engines.”
Microsoft Edge leverages Copilot and more
Since the browser’s essentials list reflects a relatively new and perhaps little-known feature in Microsoft Edge, the improvement in its responsiveness thanks to WebUI 2.0 may have gone unnoticed. Especially since Microsoft prefers to talk mainly about the Copilot program and artificial intelligence.
Microsoft is also signaling an open source approach in the future, which will likely benefit the improvement of the web platform itself.