Chrome's extension model is required for security, that's why firefox and edge adopted it and abandoned their old extension/plugin models.

Yeah, the rendering engine is pretty good (although you can still sometimes hit corner cases where it doesn't work very well). Honestly, I think a lot of the problem isn't Edge, it's the whole Universal Windows Platform. It just feels like it's not fully cooked yet for apps that are as sophisticated as a modern web browser.

It's not fully cooked in general.

Try killing explorer.exe and resizing a UWP app; Something that should have nothing to do with app windows is fiddling with app frames.

General nonsense in how the UWP system works is responsible for a lot of lagginess and the generally immature feel of the system.

I would love to love Edge, but it really is crippled by the artifacts of its UWP implementation.

> What I want is IE's rendering speed with Chrome's UI and Firefox's extensibility (the good old system, not the new one).

I'll also take Opera's built in vpn, iridium's privacy measures, vivaldi's dev tools, and blisk's mobile preview feature.