Microsoft Edge 87 brings back the shopping feature. Microsoft Edge 87 is the new stable version of Microsoft’s browser and now it uses a Chromium-based engine.
Unlike the rest of the Chromium derivatives, Microsoft Edge, like Chrome, is governed by the same version number, which doesn’t mean that the new features are the same for everyone. Thus, while some of Chromium 87’s new features in relation to the navigation engine are common to all, they are not implemented at the same pace.
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The new features of Chromium 87, which according to Google will bring “the greatest performance increase in years”, will be implemented in the different derivatives as their managers have tested them and verified that they do not intervene with their own changes. But they will end up arriving in all cases.
The truth is that Microsoft Edge 87 is an update that mainly receives security patches, recovers one of the functions of the old Microsoft Edge among others.
The most striking new feature of Microsoft Edge 87 is the return of the shopping function, which sent alerts of coupons and offers while the user browses shopping sites. Well, here it is again for anyone who is interested and for those who are not, it is possible to deactivate it from the browser preferences, as it is activated by default.
Other new features of Microsoft Edge 87 is available to all users including keyboard support in the PDF viewer’s highlight function and sheet rotation in the print view when printing on both sides.
Many more changes are available in business environments, the most prominent one is the automatic execution of the browser when using Internet Explorer on non-compatible sites. A change that will eventually reach all users.
Microsoft Edge 87 brings back the shopping feature. In short, the development of Microsoft Edge is going full steam ahead, even though this version does not bring any great new features.
