Serious Discussion Microsoft Edge Stable (Chromium) Now Available for Download

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Version 130.0.2849.56: October 24, 2024

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

Microsoft Edge Version	Date Released	Based on Chromium Version
130.0.2849.56	10/24/2024	130.0.6723.69/.70

Microsoft Edge release notes for Stable Channel

Microsoft Edge release note for Stable Channel

learn.microsoft.com

 

[oldschool]

How Microsoft Edge Is Replacing React With Web Components

Microsoft's Edge browser team is on a mission to swap out React UI components with native web platform components. We speak to the team lead.

thenewstack.io

 

[brambedkar59]

How Microsoft Edge Is Replacing React With Web Components

Microsoft's Edge browser team is on a mission to swap out React UI components with native web platform components. We speak to the team lead.

thenewstack.io

I didn't understand too much of the article. Does that mean more performance with less memory usage of Edge in future?

 

[oldschool]

I didn't understand too much of the article. Does that mean more performance with less memory usage of Edge in future?

Most of the details are over my head, so I may or may not be understanding this in a very general way. It appears they are trying to replace certain frameworks, e.g. like JavaScript. with other, more performance friendly, web components. Some of the motivation is to streamline and stabilize the development process. For instance,

Within Edge itself, there are between 50 and 100 web UIs, said Ritz, adding that “each of those are like their own little web application.”

Understand that there is debate in the software community about the use of web components vs. frameworks. I probably don't understand the more technical details.