As with everything else here, these icons are exactly where you'd expect them to be, and even if you're a first-time user, it should be obvious at a glance what these buttons are for.

(I prefer the stock light one, but that's just me.) Lastly, there are buttons just to the right of the address bar for adding favorites and entering Reading View. Meanwhile, the icon all the way on the right brings up various settings, including the ability to swap out the default white theme for a black background. The icon farthest to the left is where you'll find your favorites, browsing history, downloads and your so-called Reading List, which I'll tell you about shortly. Up in the upper-right corner, you'll see four icons, which allow you to mark up a page (more on that later) or share a page (more on that later as well). Nearby are self-explanatory icons for forward, back and refresh. As in Chrome, there's just one bar toward the top of the screen that doubles as the address box and search field. In addition to these quality improvements, Microsoft Edge’s sidebar will be getting new tools and better performance as the company continues to work on new multitasking features.There's not much to Edge's design, and that's a good thing. In the next update, Edge Basic security mode will be enabled by default. This feature is already available in Edge, but it’s turned off by default. When the functionality is turned on, Microsoft Edge disables the Just-in-time compiler (JIT) on unpopular or unknown sites, thus making making Windows 11’s default browser more secure.ĭisabling the Just-in-time compiler (JIT) reduces the chances of security breaches, according to Microsoft. One of the new features is support for basic security enhancements are now enabled by default.įor those unaware, the basic security enhancements feature adds security protection to less visited sites.

The next version of Microsoft Edge is expected to ship with some minor feature tweaks and the usual improvements. As per Microsoft Improvements coming to Microsoft Edge 102 If you’ve already installed Microsoft Edge 102, you can try out the feature right now. Users on Linux or Mac will only benefit from the existing standard caching feature.

This new disk caching feature is currently exclusive to Edge for Windows 11, Windows 10 and Windows 7/8.1.

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