Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web

One of the greatest fears when Microsoft announced that it was ditching its EdgeHTML rendering engine and switching to Chromium—the open source engine that powers Google’s Chrome, along with a range of others such as Vivaldi, Brave, and Opera—is that Web developers would increasingly take the easy way out and limit their support and testing to Chrome. Microsoft’s browser grew to about 95 percent of the market, and wide swathes of the Web proudly announced that they were “best viewed in Internet Explorer,” often to the point of not working at all in any other browser. Further, users who have tried changing their user-agent—the identification string, sent by browsers, that tells Web servers what version of which browser they are—have reported that much of the app works in both Safari and Firefox, with reports that even voice and video calls work in Firefox.

Source: arstechnica.com