In recent years, Ive enjoy the option of being able to make payments through web sites using this tool.

If youre looking for reasons to switch from the increasingly stale Apple Safari on your Mac, youve come to the right place.

By doing so, they can offer web content and ads customized for your benefit.

Microsoft Edge addresses good and bad web trackers in a way that other browsers do not.

Rather than taking an all-or-nothing approach, the browser offers you three levels of tracking prevention for which to choose.

With the Microsoft-recommended Balanced approach, the browser blocks harmful trackers and those from sites you havent visited.

More security, however, means youll receive a less robust and personalized experience compared to the Basic option.

Under this scenario, your surfing experience becomes even less personalized.

Depending on the site, the limit could also disable video and login capabilities.

On Microsoft Edge tabs, youre welcomed with beautiful photos of the California redwoods, wintertime in Geneva, Switzerland, and muskoxen in Alaska.

Theres also a Microsoft Bing web search box, Microsoft News, and yes, quick links to your most visited web sites.

My favorite is the informational layout, which you can see above.

So much so, its made it oh-so-simple to set up and begin using.

Once you start the browser for the first, youll be asked to import your previous browser settings.

For Apple Safari, it will import favorites, bookmarks, and browsing history.

For Google Chrome, it will also import payment and password information, addresses, settings, and more.

Like you can do on Apple Safari with iCloud, with a universal Microsoft Account, you can sync your Microsoft Edge favorites, settings, addresses, passwords, and much more, across all of these platforms.

Since then, these mostly free plug-ins have come to Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and other browsers.

The compatibility means you again instant access to over 190,000 browser extensions.

As a comparison, Apple Safari currently offers less than 100 extensions.

Sad, no.

One of the advantages of using Apple Safari is that your web usernames and passwords sync across multiple devices using the iCloud Keychain.

You can do the same through Microsoft Edge, but theres no easy way to import the old from the new.

Lets assume that half of these are either outdated or no longer needed.

Thats still a lot of information that I cannot carry over to a new browser.

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