I had followed the news of the upcoming Edge engines (there are different variants right now, not just the Chromium one) but didn't realize that it had already moved from Windows Insider to current Win 10 updates — but it makes sense, since the recent update that broke the search box on the task bar, due to it switching to a new JavaScript version by Bing (eventually, it was fixed a couple of days ago).
I'm quite optimistic about the Edge browser component, and have seen some examples on GitHub (where it's been developed). Surely, it's going to be much better than the old browser component (with all its registry quirks to just to achieve a very basic CSS3 support).
I'm a bit concerned about memory consumption though, for Chromium is heavy. One of the things that surfaces with the recent switch of the Task Bar Search to JavaScript is that it eats 120 MB of ram every time you click on the search box:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3 ... -work.html
I'm not sure if this is related to the new Edge control, but it seems likely from what the linked article states.
Another issue might be privacy and data collection, which is a known issue with Chromium and Edge.
Ideally, the Sciiter bindings that have already been discussed seem a more attractive alternative, still cross-platform, very light weight, except that it doesn't use JavaScript but a proprietary alternative.
Has anyone got any news on the current status of the Edge Browser Control? Is it already usable under Win 10 or does is still require Windows insider?
