Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft Edge had simply taken over where I’d left off in Chrome. I couldn’t believe my eyes.
That’s insane.
That’s Chromium!
I honestly do suspect the fact that they’re both Chromium based is part of why this is possible.
I wonder if Google will just let microsoft have this since it’s still chromium, or put in some kind of update preventing them from doing it (obviously with a backdoor specifically so chrome can do it)
I can’t imagine it be too dificult to extract the open URLs, end chrome and launch Edge with the appropriate arguments.
But if it carried over cookies too, that’s when I would see the chromium common-ground help out.