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Edge

• Developer: Microsoft
• Development Status: Active
• Released: 2015
• Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
• Type: Browser
• Rendering Engine: EdgeHTML (legacy Edge), Blink (desktop and Android), WebKit (iOS)

Overview

Microsoft Edge is a cross-platform web browser developed by Microsoft.

Related Browsers

UAParser.js separates Microsoft's legacy, current, mobile, and embedded browser identities:

Browser	Description
IE	Microsoft's legacy browser, replaced by Edge.
IE Mobile	The former mobile version of Internet Explorer.
Edge	Microsoft's browser that replaced Internet Explorer.
Edge WebView	The embedded web control from the legacy Edge platform.
Edge WebView2	The modern web control powered by the Edge Chromium runtime.

History

The original Edge used Microsoft's EdgeHTML engine. Microsoft replaced it with a Chromium-based version in January 2020 and ended support for the old version in March 2021. The old browser uses Edge/ in its user agent, while the newer one uses Edg/.

Desktop

User-Agent Examples

Windows

# Microsoft Edge 0.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0

# Microsoft Edge 42
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/17.17134

# Microsoft Edge 44
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.17763

# Microsoft Edge Chromium
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.48 Safari/537.36 Edg/74.1.96.24

macOS

# Microsoft Edge 100
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.1108.55 Safari/537.36 Edg/100.0.1108.55

Mobile

Android

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; G8441 Build/47.1.A.12.270) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.123 Mobile Safari/537.36 EdgA/42.0.0.2529
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; SM-G991B Build/RP1A.200720.012; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/91.0.4472.120 Mobile Safari/537.36 EdgW/1.0

iOS

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0 EdgiOS/42.1.1.0 Mobile/15F79 Safari/605.1.15

Windows IoT

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows IoT 10.0; Android 6.0.1; WebView/3.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Mobile Safari/537.36 Edge/18.17763

Code Example

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { BrowserName } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';

const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0';

const browser = parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser();

console.log(browser);
// {name: "Edge", version: "12.0", major: "12"}

console.log(browser.is(BrowserName.EDGE));
// true