Each one comes with preset options for cookies, third-party services, and more. You can pick between Unrestricted, Balanced, and Strict in Edge. In addition to IE Mode, the company confirms it's working on a new three-tiered security model. That could put Microsoft ahead of Firefox, which hovers around 10 percent of the market.

If Microsoft can get current IE users to use Edge, even with IE Mode, it could get its market share back over 10 percent. There are still more people using Internet Explorer than Edge - 7.7 percent versus 4.49 percent of the total market. The other angle is much more in Microsoft's interest. Everything within that tab will render using the classic IE engine, but you get the benefits of using a faster, more secure browser. Edge will open Internet Explorer as a tab in IE Mode.

You won't need to open IE to get those benefits with IE Mode. You won't have to do that when the new Edge rolls out 'IE Mode.' There are still some sites and services that work better on IE because Microsoft spent so many years pushing web developers to use it. While Microsoft pushes Edge as its browser of choice, you can launch Internet Explorer by typing it into the Start menu search or by digging around in the Windows Accessories folder. It's even bundled with Windows 10, believe it or not. Internet Explorer 11 is the most recent version of Microsoft's classic browser. Now, the company is working on a new version of Edge based on Chromium, and it's going to have a surprising feature: Internet Explorer tabs (Opens in a new window). However, Edge didn't return Microsoft to its glory days. Microsoft's response was to retire Internet Explorer and move to Edge with the release of Windows 10. Microsoft used to dominate the browser space, but then upstarts like Firefox and Chrome left it in the dust.

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