With this - and a sufficient amount of telemetry it also received from early adopters - the company now feels that it knows enough about how well Edge works on a wide range of machines and that it is stable enough for enthusiasts, web developers and business users to give it a try before its wider release. Over the course of the last few months of preview releases in the existing channels, Microsoft gathered about 140,000 pieces of feedback. The new beta channel, which will see a new update roughly every six weeks, will join the existing dev and canary channels, which will continue to see daily and weekly updates, respectively. On February 14, 2023, Microsoft shipped an Edge update that permanently disables Internet Explorer on many systems running Windows 10.Microsoft today launched the first beta builds of its new Chromium-based Edge browser for Windows and Mac.

In other Edge news, Split Screen view made its way to the stable version of the browser this week, though it's hidden behind a flag. Users can also configure this setting in the 'Clear browsing data for Internet Explorer' option in the Privacy, search, and services menu of Settings ( edge://settings/privacy). New policy to clear IE mode data on browser exit. The InternetExplorerModeClearDataOnExitEnabled (opens in new tab) policy controls whether browsing history is deleted from Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer mode every time Microsoft Edge is closed.For more information, see Browse more safely with Microsoft Edge (opens in new tab).

More cross-platform (ARM64) support is expected in the future. Enhanced security mode improvements. Enhanced security mode now supports WebAssembly for macOS 圆4 and Linux 圆4.

Additionally, a new policy makes it easier to set if Edge clears data from Internet Explorer mode every time the browser is closed.

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