This week, ahead of all the Black Friday deals rolling out en masse on everything from the best 4K TVs to the best laptops and even Roombas, Microsoft Edge is getting a new feature that shows you a coupon alert. and promotional codes for the products you browse and you can even apply them to the cart when you check out. As we wrote earlier this month, the new feature is sure to appeal to bargain hunters, especially the extreme coupon set, but it will be just as useful for the rest of us just looking for a good deal. Microsoft already brought price comparisons to Edge a few weeks ago, as The Verge points out, as part of its Collections feature, which is unfortunately only available to US buyers at the moment.
Edge gets several new features as Microsoft tries to position itself against Google Chrome and others
Along with the new coupon and promo code functionality, Microsoft Edge also gets an annotation feature for PDFs, which the Edge community has been asking for. Edge users will also have the option to annotate and tag screenshots. Later this month, Microsoft plans to add the ability to capture an entire web page in a single screenshot later this month, making it a much more useful feature than capture tools. existing screen. Microsoft Word and Outlook will also be able to better handle copy-pasted URLs from Edge, shortening longer links like bit.ly and other services with the link stick option do. source available from a context menu. This all comes as Microsoft looks to assert its own Chromium-based browser against heavyweights like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Whether these new features are enough to increase market share among more established players remains to be seen.