9 Microsoft Edge Features Chrome Doesn't Have (...yet)
About this video
Jeff Su presents nine Microsoft Edge features he says Chrome did not have at the time, positioning Edge as a useful secondary work browser. They are: Immersive Reader to strip ads and distractions (with text-column and background preferences); Read Aloud, which he uses mainly by dragging PDF industry reports into Edge and listening at higher speed; the built-in PDF reader with table of contents, fit-to-page, two-page view, draw/highlight annotation and save/save-as; Web Capture (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+S) for area or full-page scrollable screenshots he notes lacks undo and text boxes; Sidebar Search (noting it is Bing-only) for quick lookups like currency conversion; Collections to save pages, snippets and images with notes and sticky-note summaries; vertical tabs combined with tab groups; Sleeping Tabs, which Microsoft’s help site is cited as saying uses 26% less CPU and 16% less memory on average; and a built-in QR code generator in the address bar for linking flyers/posters to a URL.
Key takeaways
- Immersive Reader removes page clutter for distraction-free reading, and Read Aloud can narrate PDFs dragged into Edge, per the creator.
- Edge’s PDF reader offers a bookmark table of contents, fit-to-page, two-page view, and draw/highlight annotation with save-as.
- Web Capture takes full-page scrollable screenshots, though the creator notes undo and text-box annotation were missing.
- Collections save pages, text snippets and images in one place with notes, pinned summaries, and an Open All option.
- Sleeping Tabs put inactive tabs to sleep after a set time; creator cites Microsoft help figures of 26% less CPU and 16% less memory on average.
Episode details: published October 26, 2021 · 9:28 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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