Holding an overall browser market share of 2.52% makes it a relevant browser to keep in mind while preparing your cross browser testing checklist. More specifically we talked about the death of IE and looked at some stats on why Internet Explorer, even after being deprecated, is still used by a lot of people today. In our previous posts, we talked about the cross browser compatibility testing of websites on Internet Explorer browsers. Not sure what these browser engines and framework meant? Now, Microsoft has joined the other side in the browser wars and are using Chrome’s Blink engine to create a brand new Edge browser, completely abandoning the Chakra framework. But let us have a look at it again from the last 4 years when Edge got launched and IE was discontinued by Microsoft.Īs you can see the fall of IE is a lot faster than the rise of Edge. Now, although the difference in browser market share is not so significant looking at the present. Even after being discontinued from the last 4 years, IE still holds a bigger market share than Edge. There are plenty of reasons behind the death of IE, primary reason was the dim light over the new and more advanced browser introduced by Microsoft called Edge. Internet Explorer, once the most used browser in the world, has been deprecated back in 2015 by its manufacturer Microsoft.

You would have to either invest in a separate Windows device or read this post till the end to know about few better alternatives. If you have a Mac device with you and you want to perform cross browser testing of your website on Internet Explorer or Edge, then you are out of luck. Internet Explorer and it’s newer cousin Edge browsers work only on Windows machines.

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