Just noticed a pop-up appearing on my Windows 10 desktop when I clicked on Firefox icon to open it with the following message "Use Microsoft Edge as it is safer than Mozilla Firefox". I have found out that Microsoft is using evidence from the US National Vulnerability Database (https://nvd.nist.gov/) to promote Edge. I am surprised that Edge is more secure than Firefox and Chrome and I will consider using it more in the future.

I will say the malicious links I've been finding in Google Ads lately are blocked by Windows SmartScreen in Edge, but not in other browsers.

Right now I use Edge primarily because it's the fastest browser, but I hope to return to Firefox now that they're making big strides on fixing their performance.

Edge is pretty solid now, but when all things are equal, I'd lean towards the more open option.

A little bit one-sided to base this headline on the number of CVE's and average block rate for phishing sites.

By the way, I was really surprised to see a use of Edge browser around the 1.6% worldwide. http://gs.statcounter.com/

They based the headline on the NSS labs evaluation, which is ostensibly about "measuring how effective browsers are at protecting against socially engineered malware (SEM) and phishing attacks".