Google Refuses Modifying YouTube Code To Crash Microsoft Edge

An ex-Microsoft intern has disclosed details of a YouTube matter that has persuaded some engineers of Edge browser that Google included code to intentionally break the compatibility. In a media report, Microsoft’s ex-software engineering intern, Joshua Bakita, lays out info and states about a matter previously this year. Microsoft has since declared that the firm is moving from the rendering engine for EdgeHTML for its Edge browser to the open source Chromium project.

Bakita clarifies that “one of the factors Microsoft made decision to conclude EdgeHTML was due to the fact that Google kept making modifications to its websites that crashed other browsers, and we could not keep level up.” Bakita states that Google included a “concealed empty div on YouTube clips” that impacted hardware acceleration of Microsoft for videos. “Before that, our fairly modern video acceleration placed before of Chrome in terms of battery usage for video playback, but almost the moment they broke things for YouTube, they began touting the dominance of Chrome over Edge battery usage for video playback.”

On a related note, Microsoft claimed that it is supposedly developing the ad blocking and content-filtering extension “Adblock Plus” for Android beta consumers into its Edge browser. “The adblocker is obtainable in the settings of Microsoft Edge and does not need a different add-in to install and download,” the media claimed this week.

The tech behemoth has supposedly associated with “Adblock Plus,” to develop this functionality directly into the app. “Once you have turned on ‘Adblock Plus’ in the browser, enhanced options are listed to organize the content blocker. The obtainable options are restricted to controlling a whitelist and turning off acceptable ads,” claimed a report from the media. Earlier, Google had revealed its personal ad blocking for Android in Chrome but that has not been capable of blocking ads on a number of sites.