I have installed the latest chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser, it is now available for W7/8.1, I believe it was exclusive to W10 before but I could be wrong.

After a few hours browsing, text seems very legible (maybe they are proprietary M$ fonts), and there seems to be less strain happening than Chrome/Firefox right now. I would recommend giving it a try if you're using Windows.

Edit: Looks like it is available for MacOS and also a soon to be announced Linux version. It is supported on Windows 7 until January 2021.

20 days later

Any update on whether you still feel there’s less strain happening?

  • diop replied to this.

    a12a12a12 I still think it's the most comfortable browser I've used of late. I'm still using it today. Whether it's because it uses MS Fonts (Arial by default I believe) and that makes it easier on the eye I don't know.

    I would suggest others give it a try especially considering it's going to be platform agnostic soon.

    dev