

While Edge does come with support for all major web standards, they still need improvements as benchmark scores suggest. That also means no more support for legacy web standards like Active X, DirectX Filters, Silverlight etc. Edge’s layout engine has been build to support modern web standards like Shell Helper API, custom download managers and more. Microsoft has apparently worked really hard to meet modern web standards with Edge, even though the browser features a forked version of “Trident”(IE’s rendering engine) called Microsoft EdgeHTML. Google is also a founding member of W3C Web Performance Working group, so Chrome will always be up to date with the latest web standards. Chrome was also one of the first web browsers to support HTML5 and Google is still a key contributor to the web standard. The latest Google Chrome version comes with support for new web standards like WebP (new web image format). Then, we loaded the heavy USA Today website. We also tested the page rendering speed by loading Techcrunch.

We loaded Beebom on both the browsers and noted the time. Verdict: Microsoft Edge was slightly quicker to load but we are pretty sure you won’t notice the difference. Real World Usage Comparison Start-up Time We have taken an average out of 3 scores from the Benchmark tests for better accuracy.ġ.Just so you should know, we cleared the cache after every test on both the browsers.We are carrying out these tests on a fresh install of Google Chrome (v. To cater to more people across the globe, we are using a modestly powered PC featuring a Core i3 processor and 4 GB RAM for our testing.
