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Better battery life with Microsoft Edge

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Re: Better battery life with Microsoft Edge

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Post by nunez »

ktamura wrote: post #12
nunez wrote: post #11

I would use Edge a lot more if Google Docs weren't such a mess on it. I would like to drop Google Docs altogether (I hate products that are tied to one browser like Google's are), but that isn't feasible right now.

Interesting. How bad is it? I rely a lot on Google Docs, and for this very reason (and extensions) I stick with Chrome. But that said, GSuite is such a CPU/memory hog. Gmail, in particular, has been terrible recently to the point where I went back to using Outlook for the first time in 7-8 years.

All of the icons are wrong on Edge. Makes it difficult to navigate around. Weird UX edge (ha ha ha nope) cases that exist on Edge but not on Chrome or Firefox.

Re: Better battery life with Microsoft Edge

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Post by helthanatos »

mc32 wrote: post #20
bsclifton wrote: post #18

Props to the Edge team :) Only complaint I have about Edge is how Windows pushes it down your throat. You get while setting a different browser and even AFTER setting a default browser More details: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/7287#issuecom...

Have they provided a way to search history? Last time I checked it was not possible from the browser itself, except visually searching. On the other hand, seem to have introduced some tab management features.

More important to me is restoring tabs.

Re: Better battery life with Microsoft Edge

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Post by haspoken »

bsclifton wrote: post #18

Props to the Edge team :) Only complaint I have about Edge is how Windows pushes it down your throat. You get while setting a different browser and even AFTER setting a default browser More details: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/7287#issuecom...

Microsoft can't seem to make something people want, so they have to shove it down your throat.

Apple built a walled garden to lure people in.

Microsoft is building a walled prison to trap people.

Re: Better battery life with Microsoft Edge

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Post by supernovae »

helthanatos wrote: post #22
mc32 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have they provided a way to search history? Last time I checked it was not possible from the browser itself, except visually searching. On the other hand, seem to have introduced some tab management features.

More important to me is restoring tabs.

tab restore is there..

Re: Better battery life with Microsoft Edge

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Post by popey456963 »

haspoken wrote: post #23
bsclifton wrote: post #18

Props to the Edge team :) Only complaint I have about Edge is how Windows pushes it down your throat. You get while setting a different browser and even AFTER setting a default browser More details: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/7287#issuecom...

Microsoft can't seem to make something people want, so they have to shove it down your throat. Apple built a walled garden to lure people in. Microsoft is building a walled prison to trap people.

There's also no ability to uninstall Edge, the current way of doing it appears to be to delete all of the binaries in a specific folder.

Re: Better battery life with Microsoft Edge

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Post by nol13 »

Macha wrote: post #14
CSDude wrote: post #13

But does Windows still keep being a weirdo and notify every time in the notification bar when I use Google Chrome? It really feels like its stalking and makes me irritate. http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12369326/microsoft-windows-...

I mean, as the article points out, I can't help but feel Google brought this one on themselves with browser ads on the google homepage...

not to forget keeps bugging me to make google my default search engine. i mean if my default was set to ask.com maybe, if i set my default to ddg, it was probably on purpose..

and on that note, why/how are they able to detect that google isnt my default search anyway?

Re: Better battery life with Microsoft Edge

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Post by andoon »

m4x wrote: post #17
CSDude wrote: post #13

But does Windows still keep being a weirdo and notify every time in the notification bar when I use Google Chrome? It really feels like its stalking and makes me irritate. http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12369326/microsoft-windows-...

At least Windows a) only does this when on battery power, b) for a valid reason, and c) hides it in the offscreen notification area. Every time I use Google Search in Edge a prominent pop-up window asks me to switch browsers. It's extremely frustrating!

For a valid reason?
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