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I am glad to see that there was no auto-update and auto-force-restart during the time when you are not interacting with the computer in the battery test. It is the single most annoying feature I have ever seen.
Very happy to see they've stopped using Channel 9.
How about getting somewhere close to supporting U2F? Not even close to becoming a reality[0]. Working with popular password management solutions in order to get them to make an Edge extension? Asking the developers for more extensions?
Any of those three would make Edge seem like a more viable browser in the future and might actually make me try it out. Battery life? Nice to have, but nowhere close to being an essential thing to me.
1. using a microsoft computer for the test seems a little unfair. I should hope that a microsoft browser on a microsoft OS and a microsoft computer can get the best battery life.
2. Edge does less than the other browsers. It's not really a fair test when it's a less capable browser. When they implement ServiceWorker, Shared Web Workers, WebRTC Data Channels, shadow DOM and position:sticky then let's see how they do. As long we are comparing two browsers that don't have the same functionality, i can get even better battery life by turning my computer off and putting it on a shelf.
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> they seem to be genuinely interested in helping everybody else up their game too No, they are not. The speed of Microsoft's transformation from universally hated evil FUD masters to white and fluffy friends of everyone really boggles one's mind. Just as does the gullibility and naivete of those taking it all for face value. Microsoft may be missing Balmer as a head figure, but it is the same old corporation that do…
> it is the same old corporation that doesn't give a flying fuck about anything or anyone except for its own interests No, I don't believe it is. Their actions help themselves, their competitors and their users. That's really as good as you can hope for with a profit-driven company.
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...
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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.
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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?
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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?