When it comes back, Edge will have a new Split window button in its toolbar: click it to toggle Split window on and off. Search for the term split and then change the feature “Microsoft Edge split screen” from “Default” to “Enabled.” Then, restart the browser as prompted. Open Microsoft Edge and navigate to edge://flags. But it’s available in stable now, so anyone can check it out. There is no official announcement, and the feature has to be enabled using Edge’s “flags” interface. MicrosoftĪ Beta build for Edge on Windows 10 leaked Tuesday, showing that Microsoft's making progress on the 'full-Chromium' transition.Two months after it began testing an experimental “split window” feature for Edge, Microsoft has quietly made it available in the stable version of its web browser. It won't Microsoft hasn't said anything definitive about a launch date. (Chrome 75 Stable is slated to debut June 4, four and a half weeks after its launch in Beta.) If Edge were on a standard schedule - it's not - and the Beta was given to Insider participants tomorrow, it would probably hit Stable on June 11. In Chrome's cadence, which Microsoft intends to replicate with Edge, a new Stable build normally appears about four to five weeks after the same version number has reached Beta.

Google's Stable build upgraded to version 74 two weeks ago, and its Beta was promoted to 75 last Thursday (specifically version. The Dev and Beta versions on Windows 10 identified themselves as 75.0.139.5 and 75.0.139.7, respectively, indicating that Microsoft is now working with Chromium's version 75. Edge is also slated to be available for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 at some point. Beta and Stable builds appear every six weeks.Įdge has yet to reach Stable, and Microsoft has not disclosed a timetable for when the browser will.

Canary, the least reliable, is updated daily, while the Dev version refreshes weekly.

Like Google Chrome - also based on open-source Chromium technologies - Edge releases in multiple builds representing increasingly more polished and stable versions of the browser.

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