Among the many own projects in which the Microsoft firm is embarked, one of the most recent and striking is that of the new Edge. This is the software giant’s new web browser that replaces the classic Edge that launched alongside Windows 10.
However, this had quite little acceptance, hence now the company has launched the new Edge based on Google Chromium. Well, keep in mind that many Windows users use the system’s built-in web browser to download other browsers. For this, years ago Internet Explorer was used, then the classic Edge that we have talked about, and now the new Edge Chromium.
Installing the new Edge is now not as easy as it should be
As you can imagine, Microsoft is currently still in the process of promoting its new browser for Windows computers. But there is still work, since for example Windows 10 , when installed from scratch, still comes without the new version of Edge . The strange thing is that now, Windows users who want to download this program after installing Windows on a device, are going to have it more complicated. And is that what at first should be as easy as opening the download page and pressing a button, is no longer the case.
It is true that this does happen when we try it from proposals such as the previous version of Edge, Internet Explorer or some other browsers such as Opera. But those who try to download the new Edge using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome , get a totally different experience. We tell you this because the download page shows a Try Now button instead of a download button.
The funny thing about all this is that this button does not download a trial version of Microsoft Edge. Instead it is a link that is redirected to the classic version of Microsoft Edge on Windows. In fact, if we look closely at the link as such, in Firefox or Chrome , we see that the protocol is the one used to open links in the installed Microsoft Edge web browser. That is why when clicking there, on the Try Now button, a message appears to open the link in the classic version of Microsoft Edge.
Of course, at the same time we have the possibility to cancel the request . Therefore, this sends us to the download page by opening the link in the classic version of Edge to be able to download as such.
Microsoft complicates the download of Edge in Chrome and Firefox
What is not very clear is the reason why the change was made by Microsoft. And it is that considering that the company wants to bring the new browser to as many devices as possible, it is rare that it complicates it in these two. The reason for this is clear, as the measure may discourage some users from completing the subsequent download and installation.
Anyway, you have to know that the next version of Windows 10, the October 2020 Update that is about to arrive, includes the new Edge browser by default. Therefore it will no longer be necessary to download it manually