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MSEdge
OPEN SOURCE2018–2022
MicrosoftEdge / MSEdge

MSEdge

Microsoft Edge

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Microsoft Edge

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-12-06 19:17:59 UTC to 2022-01-19 01:31:29 UTC.

02468102018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 6 submissions, 4 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1064
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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miguel-muniz·Jan 19, 2022
> What exactly is keeping developers from making a fully featured open source web browser not at the mercy of Google or the browser's developers? It is incredibly difficult to build a web browser because of the sheer complexity and scope. You are essentially building an entire platform on the scale of an operating system that must support legacy features and behavior from decades ago. Users expect everything to just work, and if you can't make it work, then they have little incentive to use your product. Just ask Microsoft[0]. [0] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge/blob/7d69268e85e198c...
In Ask HN: Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Mozilla for web browsers?
solarkraft·Oct 11, 2021
Not just this release, all of Edge. I looked up the source code out of curiosity, found the Github repo (https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge) ... which contains an MIT License.txt for that repository and a Readme.md with hits such as „Our new mobile browser has been based on open source from its beginnings over a year ago“ and „While we’ve been consumers of Chromium open source“. I was pretty baffled and continue to be. Why the f** would they make it proprietary? It’s sad because Edge really is the nicest spin of Chrome I know, but I‘d have liked to use a version with some features removed.
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