Internet Explorer was once the undisputed king of the web browser market, but those days are long gone. Microsoft isn’t ready to give up, however, and instead of wasting resources trying to revive Internet Explorer, the company is betting all of its money on a new web browser: Microsoft Edge. Seeing as how this is Micrsoft’s attempt to reclaim is crown, it’s only natural to compare Edge to the current web browser king: Google Chrome.
Windows 10 comes with a brand new web browser called Microsoft Edge. It’s got a lighter design, it’s blazing fast and Cortana is baked right into it. Edge washes away everything we hated about Internet Explorer, but how does it compare to Google Chrome, the world’s most-used web browser? We pitted Edge against Chrome (version 44.0.2403.89m) on an HP Spectre x360 laptop with a 2.2GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM, and ran a series of benchmark tests to see if Microsoft’s new web browser is faster or at least on par with Chrome. Each web browser was tested as new, meaning Chrome didn’t have any extensions to slow it down and the history and cache were reset on each browser after every trial. Two important things to note: Chrome does come with Adobe Flash pre-installed. We didn’t disable it during our benchmark tests as that’s the state it would be downloaded in by a normal user. All tests were performed three times and then the average taken.
