New Microsoft Edge Lands on Xbox

The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge is the marquee addition to the September Update for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One.

“Team Xbox is excited to continue bringing new ways to make Xbox better, with you at the center, as we refine the experience and deliver brand new features based on your feedback,” Microsoft’s Jonathan Hildebrandt writes. “This month’s update includes new ways to access games on Windows PCs via the Xbox app, Play Later discovery, updated Microsoft Edge, and more.”

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It sure does. Here’s what’s new.

Save your Play Later list. The Play Later feature lets you curate the list of Xbox Game Pass titles you’d like to play over time, and it’s available directly from the Xbox Dashboard.

New Microsoft Edge. The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge is now available on all Xbox consoles. It comes with mouse and sync support.

And yeah. That’s about it. Though, as Microsoft notes, Xbox Cloud Gaming and Xbox Remote Play are now supported across all Xbox consoles as well.

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  • brinel321

    Premium Member
    24 September, 2021 - 9:32 am

    <p>Paul, looks like the ad button was flipped on for us site premium subscribers – is this something permanent? </p>

    • christianwilson

      Premium Member
      24 September, 2021 - 10:53 am

      <p>I am experiencing the same thing in both Chrome and Edge. </p><p><br></p><p>I don’t see any ads on iOS Safari, though.</p>

      • seattlemike

        Premium Member
        24 September, 2021 - 10:18 pm

        <p>I see them right now on my iPad. Pretty awful!</p>

    • rbwatson0

      Premium Member
      24 September, 2021 - 11:14 am

      <p>I’ve got ads popping up left and right. Using Edge for Android.</p>

      • IanYates82

        Premium Member
        24 September, 2021 - 5:34 pm

        <p>I’m also a premium subscriber. Had to sign in again using the site this morning, like I’d lost cookies or something. </p><p><br></p><p>That didn’t help. </p><p><br></p><p>These ads are *horrible*. The site is so much slower, and more than half of my screen has popup junk on it, autoplay (albeit muted) videos, and when navigating I get forced modal dialog ads. </p><p>I’ve been premium since almost day 1 so hadn’t seen how bad it was with ads on. </p><p><br></p><p>Anyway, hope it’s fixed soon. I think I’ll just come back later. </p>

        • bettyblue

          27 September, 2021 - 8:00 am

          <p>Some good ad blockers make ads a non issues no matter your subscription level. </p><p><br></p><p>UBlock on a computer is a must. Never see ads again even on YouTube. </p>

    • davehelps

      Premium Member
      24 September, 2021 - 1:18 pm

      <p>Me too.</p>

  • MoopMeep

    24 September, 2021 - 9:41 am

    <p>Do people find browsers on game systems (and youtube, netflix) as being annoying?</p><p>Honestly, it annoys me because I would rather have them concentrate on making the gaming part of the machine better. I’ll use a computer or ipad</p><p>The last time I tried the browser was on the Sony PSP and that one really sucked… maybe that why I don’t like it.</p><p><br></p>

    • christianwilson

      Premium Member
      24 September, 2021 - 10:01 am

      <p>A good browser on a game console can be useful for a few things. If there is a streaming service that does not have an app on Xbox, you can go to the website and stream it that way. You can also now use an Xbox to play game streaming services like Amazon Luna or Google Stadia. </p><p><br></p><p>Otherwise, yeah, for regular browsing, you can do better with a laptop or tablet. </p>

    • manicscholar

      24 September, 2021 - 8:21 pm

      <p>A good browser is really handy for streaming from websites. So glad this had finally come to Xbox. Old browser was painful. </p>

  • usman

    Premium Member
    24 September, 2021 - 9:50 am

    <p>Now, imagine using a Series S as Chromium desktop</p>

    • sydney2k

      24 September, 2021 - 6:00 pm

      <p>Office.com and One Drive. Just sayin’.</p>

  • bart

    Premium Member
    24 September, 2021 - 10:47 am

    <p>I am very happy with the addition of the (new) Edge browser. I often use it to watch online content like FRD, Windows Weekly or Microsoft live events. This experience on the old Edge browser was getting worse by each update, so not a moment too soon to see (the new) Edge.</p>

  • bettyblue

    24 September, 2021 - 9:55 pm

    <p>I was an Edge user (Chromium) from the Beta days until about 5 months ago. </p><p><br></p><p>Too many useless changes way too often. On the Mac I would get weekly updates booting me out and the update would take a while. I felt like they moved stuff around for change sake. Like many other Microsoft programs the bloat just became too much. </p><p><br></p><p>I have moved to FireFox. Peace out!</p>

  • jjonas51

    27 September, 2021 - 4:29 pm

    <p>I am not an xbox user but have had the need to use a browser on Roku as an example. Why aren’t more browsers making their way to platforms like Roku with tens of millions of users and even more devices? I’ve looked and there really aren’t any worth using. It seems that it would be relatively easy to get something up and running and for something like Edge where they’re trying to get market share, tens of millions of users, I know small % browsing with browser, but still. I understand google not wanting to as any credibility to anything not google they will dump on, and their competing os.</p>

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