Microsoft patched two bugs in its Chromium-based Edge browser last week, one of which could be used by an attacker to bypass security and to remotely inject and execute arbitrary code on any ...

As Microsoft now open sources Chakra (the part of Edge responsible ... accept code contributions from software application developers outside of Microsoft… to build the Microsoft browser.

Instead of developing the browser with proprietary code, Microsoft decided to build the new Edge using open-source Chromium source code, which was originally developed by Google and also underpins ...

Several years ago, Microsoft decided to start from scratch and tossed the old version of Edge. The current browser uses the same open-source Chromium code as Google Chrome. Still, it's barely a ...

The proprietary EdgeHTML engine underpinning the browser will be abandoned in favor of the Chromium code used by Google ... Look for Edge to shift over to the open-source engine sometime in ...