APRIL 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 57The Basemark Web 3.0 test indicates
that Microsoft’s new Edge performs
on a par with its competition
Inthelatter,thetestreportsthatthenewEdge
doesn’tyet support Web Authentication/FIDO 2, as
well as some web elements (custom elements, HTML
imports) that other browsers do.
Finally, we took a real-world look at how well
each browser did in terms of memory usage and
CPU utilization. Because this is a real-world test, it’s
not repeatable. We used 30 tabs of media-rich sites,
including our own, loaded each, then waited for 60
seconds to let the system ‘settle down’ and measured
the results. Ads will vary, the content will vary – what
we hoped to achieve was to load the sites within the