Unless you’ve Classic Edge pinned to the taskbar, it will be now difficult to find it and open from Start menu search in latest Windows 10 version 1903 build 18362.267.
As Microsoft hid or made Internet Explorer 11 hard to discover and open in Windows 10 with Microsoft Edge offered as the default browser. With Chromium Edge now in development, Microsoft trying to give the same treatment to old Edge browser.
As in 2019, Internet Explorer 11 is still available and Microsoft has no plans to remove it in Windows 10 after making IE mode available for enterprises in Chromium Edge, expect Software giant to follow the same strategy or remove old Edge altogether when they ship new Edge-based on Chromium as the default browser.
Now if you search for “Edge” in the start menu, either Dev or Canary version of Edge or both will be displayed (if installed) in search results (check the above screenshot) in latest Windows 10 May 2019 update that has optional Cumulative update KB4505903 installed.
In our findings, when we tried to create a shortcut for old Edge with this command,%windir%SystemAppsMicrosoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbweMicrosoftEdge.exe it didn’t work.
Legacy Edge is gone, you can still open it by running “Microsoft -Edge:” command in the Run dialog or by typing “start microsoft-edge:” in PowerShell or Command Prompt also works.
Microsoft has made the change to prevent UWP Edge from appearing in App list in insider build prior to this, the change seems to have landed with the latest cumulative update in Windows 10 May 2019 Update.
HideUwpEdgeFromAppListIfWin32EdgePresent
With Edge Chromium is still in development and yet to reach beta version, this may not be wise decision to hide legacy Edge, what do you say? [Thanks to Windowslatest]
When Edgium reaches final users, it’ll make no sense that computers have three browsers installed, wasting disk space—just remove UWP Edge, Microsoft, even if you don’t remove the EdgeHTML engine from the system!