Google Chrome is the reigning king of browsers, with the highest usage on both computers and mobile devices. Microsoft Edge is available on most machines, as it comes installed by default on Windows-based devices. We’ve explored the key differences between these browsers to help you decide which one to use.

This article focuses on differences, but Microsoft Edge and Chrome are web browsers and are more similar than different. In many cases, the choice to use one or the other is a matter of personal taste. For example, you can reasonably expect both Chrome and Microsoft Edge to:

The differences between the two browsers lie in how each enables such functionality. Here's how each browser implements key aspects of the browsing experience, including rendering engines, availability of extensions, default settings for features and other services, and compatibility with desktop and mobile platforms.

Chrome uses an engine called Blink, which is built off of a base engine that Apple developed called WebKit. WebKit was an offshoot of an open source engine called KHTML, which uses the Linux K Desktop Environment as its default browser.