Alternatives to Microsoft Edge Dev / Canary
Preview channels of Microsoft Edge for testing early features. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Microsoft Edge Dev / Canary
Preview channels of Microsoft Edge for testing early features.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Microsoft Edge Dev / Canary.
Firefox Developer Edition
A pre-release build of Firefox for web developers, with the newest developer tools and platform features.
Firefox Developer Edition is Mozilla's open-source pre-release build with the newest developer tools early, moving testing from Chromium to the Gecko engine.
Chromium
The open-source browser project that Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi are all built from.
Chromium is the open-source upstream of Edge, with Chrome for Testing builds for every release channel, but official builds do not auto-update and lack Widevine DRM.
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft's Chromium-based browser, bundled with Windows.
Microsoft Edge stable trades early feature access for the regular release, which is more stable and intended as a daily browser on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Google Chrome
Google's browser, the Chromium-based one most web development is tested against.
Google Chrome is the Chromium browser most web development is tested against, with updates every four weeks and the largest extension library, tied to Google accounts.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Microsoft Edge Dev / Canary as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Firefox Nightly
Mozilla's daily pre-release build of Firefox for trying and testing upcoming browser features.
Microsoft Edge Dev / Canary preview channels test upcoming Edge features and DevTools on a proprietary Chromium base, installing separately from stable Edge instead of tracking Firefox changes.
Safari Technology Preview
Apple's early-access Safari build for macOS with the latest WebKit engine and developer tools.
Microsoft Edge Dev / Canary previews upcoming Edge features and DevTools on a Chromium base for Windows, macOS and Linux, installing alongside stable Edge as a separate browser.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Speedometer
A browser benchmark that measures web app responsiveness by simulating user actions in demo applications.
JetStream
A JavaScript and WebAssembly benchmark suite that measures how fast browsers start up and run advanced web apps.
MotionMark
A browser graphics benchmark that measures how well a browser animates complex scenes at a target frame rate.
HTML5test
A web page that scores how many HTML5 and related web platform features your browser supports.
