It appears that Microsoft is planning a radical overhaul of the way it copies and complains in its Edge internet browser on Windows XNUMX, and these changes could affect Google's rival Google Chrome browser as well.
As Windows Latest reports, Microsoft is working with Google on a feature called "Pickling Clipboard" that could dramatically improve the clipboard capabilities of Edge and Google Chrome, allowing you to copy and paste a wider variety of file formats. This could be extremely useful for people who use web applications, which are interactive sites that work much like the applications you install on your computer, to upload and share files.
Using your mouse or small keyboard groups, you will be able to copy a large number of files to sites and web applications from the browser, which will greatly facilitate our interaction with the sites.
According to an update on the Google Chrome Platform Status site, the new feature is possibly coming to Google Chrome XNUMX and Edge XNUMX.
Microsoft also ensures that the data you copy and paste will be compliant with security standards, and the company has worked to ensure that no data loss or damage occurs.
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You may not realize it, but copying and pasting is one of the most common things you can do while working on your computer, as it lets you add text, photos, files and more from one source to another quickly and easy.
So the fact that Microsoft is looking to thrive on this when using a browser is welcome. This will be particularly recommended for using web applications such as online photo editors and word processors, since it will be easier for users to quickly add items from their computer to the Internet. Obviously, it is not a coincidence that Microsoft has a set of web applications that would greatly benefit from these improvements.
What's uniquely good, though, is that Microsoft's work to flourish copy-paste isn't just going to be about its Edge internet browser. It also seems that it will appear in the Google Chrome browser that is Google's opponent.
This is due to the fact that Edge and Google Chrome now run on the exact same web engine, Chromium, which is the central part of an internet browser that displays sites. Since the moment Microsoft moved Edge to Chromium, we've seen an increasing number of Microsoft-designed features make their way to both browsers, such as increased collaboration between Microsoft and Google.
This is great for users, as it offers them more options on which browser to use, since they will not run out of features and improvements if they prefer to continue with Google Chrome. Google's offering continues to be by far the most popular internet browser on the planet, so it is not enough for Microsoft to offer functions such as copy and paste to improve the performance of its web applications for Google Chrome users as well.