For those of us who open dozens of tabs in a session – as I write this, I have 31 tabs open, and that’s light for me – this layout is a revelation. With version 89 of Edge for Mac, you have the option to set tabs for web pages to display vertically, in a sidebar down the left side of the browser, rather than horizontally across the top. I’ve flirted with it on and off, but this new version has fully seduced me, thanks to a killer feature, the utility of which took me by surprise. It’s the default browser on Windows 10 and has been available for Macs since early 2020. Edge, like Google Chrome, is built on the open-source Chromium platform. I’ve been a Chrome-on-Mac user ever since.Įarlier this month, Microsoft released a new version of its Edge browser for macOS. On my first Mac – a 2006 black MacBook – I preferred Firefox, and when Google’s Chrome was finally available for the Mac in 2010, I switched to that. Surprise! The best non-Apple browser for the Mac is made by Microsoft.įor most of the time I’ve used a Mac, I have avoided using Apple’s own browser, Safari.
