
In my tests, Edge also feels faster than Chrome and uses on average 14% less RAM. And unlike Chrome, Edge offers tracking prevention, which blocks ad providers from tracking you from website to website. The biggest drawback to the old Edge was its paltry selection of browser extensions, but because the new Edge uses the same rendering engine as Chrome, it can run Chrome extensions, which number in the thousands. The browser offers a clean design with intuitive features. It’s probably worth at least trying out the new Edge.

If you’ve set another browser as your default, the new Edge won’t automatically override your preference - but like all browsers, it will ask if you want to make it the default. If you’ve been using the old Edge as your default browser, the new one will be your default as well. Enterprise users may or may not have it yet, depending on their IT departments’ rollout plans. Why you might want to stick with Edgeīy now, the new Edge has most likely been automatically delivered to most Windows 10 Home and Pro users via Windows Update. If you haven’t installed it, the screens you see may vary somewhat from what you see here. The instructions in this article assume that you’ve installed the latest version of Windows 10 - version 20H2, a.k.a. As I’ll show you, it only takes a few minutes. Make sure that any open Edge browsers are closed, otherwise the removal won’t be able to proceed.Whatever the reason, if Edge is your default Windows 10 browser, it’s easy to switch to the browser of your choice. Press Uninstall in the pop-up menu again to confirm. Once you’ve found Edge, click the entry and press Uninstall to begin the removal.

From here, click Apps > Apps & Features and find Microsoft Edge in the list (or by using the search bar).

If you insist on disabling Edge, then you’ll need to remember this warning, as it could result in complications at a later date. This will ensure that, in almost every situation, your third-party browser is used for the web. Some core Windows features will rely on Edge, but you can (for the most part) bypass it entirely by setting another browser as your default web browser and ignoring Edge completely. There are options to stop, hide, and otherwise disable Edge if you don’t want to use it, but this isn’t necessarily the best thing to do.
