The company says it’s improved the responsiveness of several Edge features, including its settings page.

Microsoft has made the Edge browser launch faster and move between web ... 1.7% faster navigation times 2% faster startup times 5% to 7% improvement in web page responsiveness," Microsoft noted. ...

This switch to the Edge browser for Web links was forecast in this February Microsoft announcement, which was supposed to only apply to users of Microsoft 365 Personal or Family plans.