
This is not to say Safari is bad period, no. Simple stuff like opening a new tab, finding stuff on the page, or finding different settings proved to be an issue. However, I came to learn almost immediately after setting up my Mac that Safari is hard to use. I had interacted with Safari through the iPad Pro, and I believed I knew my way around with it. Being someone who had switched completely from Chrome while still on Windows, I was okay with learning to use a new browser. I wasn’t going in green.Ī good number of people I watched recommended leaving Safari as the default browser. So I had a hang of what to expect, and how to handle the basic stuff. There has been no browser that has been as reliable as Microsoft Edge for me all through the three months since switching from Windows to Mac.īy the time I was making the switch from my Windows laptop, I had watched lots of YouTube videos about switching, things to change, and how different the two Operating Systems were from each other. The heading is a very direct statement, I know. The new version arrives at the right time, ready to face a year 2021, where it is expected that there will be no more Mac with Intel processors.UPDATE: After months of use, and with the Updates to Support M1 Macs, this is the best browser both in performance and in battery life. The beta phase started in mid December and a month and a half later we have this final version and totally stable available for the most modern models of Mac computers (Mac mini and MacBook Pro 13 ″) that have the company's own processor and that Tim Cook announced last year. This means that Edge runs natively and it doesn't have to be translated via Rosetta 2 on Apple's Mac M1s. At that time it will ask you to choose between two variants:

From the official Microsoft page you can download the new version. For just a day you have at your disposal the final version for new Macs with the M1 chip.

Microsoft's Edge browser is not the best on the market, but it has certainly improved a lot from the old Internet Explorer and is quite similar to other browsers on the market. However, Microsoft has already finished the testing phase and we have available the stable version of your browser. Until yesterday, you only had the beta version to be able to surf the Internet and have your bookmarks and history fully updated and functional. You come from Windows and you are more familiar with Edge browser than Safari and you need to be able to use it. You just got your new Mac with Apple Silicon and the M1 chip.
