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Chakra was a free and open-source JavaScript engine developed by Microsoft for its Microsoft Edge Legacy web browser. It is a fork of the same-named JScript engine used in Internet Explorer . Like the EdgeHTML browser engine , the declared intention was that it would reflect the "Living Web". [ 2 ]
Microsoft first introduced the EdgeHTML rendering engine as part of Internet Explorer 11 in the Windows Technical Preview build 9879 on November 12, 2014. [8] Microsoft planned to use EdgeHTML both in Internet Explorer and Project Spartan; in Internet Explorer it would exist alongside the Trident 7 engine from Internet Explorer 11, the latter being used for compatibility purposes.
Chakra is a proprietary JScript engine developed by Microsoft. It is used in the Internet Explorer web browser. Microsoft later developed a new JavaScript engine for its Microsoft Edge [Legacy] browser, which is confusingly also called Chakra. Microsoft Edge switched to the V8 JavaScript engine in 2020.
Microsoft Edge (or simply nicknamed Edge), based on the Chromium open-source project, also known as The New Microsoft Edge or New Edge, is a proprietary cross-platform web browser created by Microsoft, superseding Edge Legacy. [8] [9] [10] In Windows 11, Edge is the only browser available from Microsoft.
Microsoft is a developer of personal computer software. It is best known for its Windows operating system , the Internet Explorer and subsequent Microsoft Edge web browsers, the Microsoft Office family of productivity software plus services, and the Visual Studio IDE.
Decentraleyes is a free and open-source browser extension used for local content delivery network (CDN) emulation. Its primary task is to block connections to major CDNs such as Cloudflare and Google (for privacy and anti-tracking purposes) and serve popular web libraries (such as JQuery and AngularJS) locally on the user's machine. [3]
Internet Explorer was the first major browser to support extensions, with the release of version 4 in 1997. [7] Firefox has supported extensions since its launch in 2004. Opera and Chrome began supporting extensions in 2009, [8] and Safari did so the following year. Microsoft Edge added extension support in 2016. [9]
An accompanying browser extension [11] is available for Firefox, [12] Tor-Browser, Google Chrome, [13] Vivaldi, Microsoft Edge, [14] and Chromium. Extensions can be linked by enabling browser integration in the desktop application.