The best browser for your Mac may not be from Apple. In fact, it may be from Apple's longtime nemesis.
Cropped screenshot of 30+ horizontal tabs.Microsoft Edge for Mac with vertical tabs pinned open.t took me about 10 minutes of using this new version before I was sold. But it’s not the only feature that makes it a great browser to use on a Mac, and certainly make it a better pick than Chrome.
Another example where Microsoft is ahead of Google on resource management: Sleeping Tabs, which suspend web pages after a specified amount of time to free up CPU and memory. Chrome has this in a feature dubbed Tab Freeze, but with Edge you can control how long before tabs are suspended. For example, Edge gives users three levels of tracking protection from which to choose – Basic, Balanced and Strict, with Balanced the default.You can also set Edge to use Strict levels when you use InPrivate browsing, which is similar to Chrome’s Incognito mode.
Not everything is lollipops and roses, though. I didn’t care much for the way Microsoft has implemented sync. I imported my Chrome bookmarks, passwords, extensions, personal info and more, but when I turned on sync using my Microsoft account, my bookmarks were replaced by a set of old bookmarks that I had not used in years. I’m not sure where Edge got them, but fortunately I could turn off sync, re-import my Chrome data and I was good to go.