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Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by tapoxi »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #34
Gracana wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My Windows dev friends seem to like it. If you're into the Microsoft ecosystem, it seems reasonable. I tried it out as an alternative to IE 11 at work (where I run Windows to do CAD and industrial automation stuff), but I returned to IE out of habit. Either browser seems to work fine, though there are occasional issues with newly-designed sites and apps, I think because they tend to be designed and tested on Chrome/M…

Edge's user agent I believe is specifically chosen to look like Chrome to most websites. I believe they have said they had a lot of issues modernizing IE because people's "detect IE" hacks would assume IE still needed those hacks, and it would in fact end up breaking the website when IE improved.

Edge's user agent is almost a parody of how bad UA strings have become. Its basically claiming to be every major browser at once.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by IvanK_net »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #41
IvanK_net wrote: post #29

The performance of Edge is comparable to Chrome or Firefox. It is a really great product. The sad part is, that they were keeping it Win10-only for several years. I think, that if they made Edge available for every platform and every OS earlier, they could have 20 - 50 % of the market by now. The funny part is, that there is NO EDGE FOR WINDOWS. Precisely, Edge is for Windows 10 only, which is the minority of all Win…

There is Edge for Windows. It's called Edge. Windows 10, is believe it or not, Windows. Any computer running Windows 7 or 8.1 can still (yes, it can) be upgraded to Windows 10 for free. So the only Windows PCs which cannot run Edge were those manufactured prior to 2009. Contrary to popular belief, there is no good reason to be running Windows 7 or 8.1. All of the telemetry anti-features were backported into those ver…

90 percent of Windows 10 users that I know updated from Windows 7 unintentionally and most of them complained about it. Such updates form Microsoft have quite bad reputation. You can't just say "Hey do this irreversible software change and trust us, that you will be satisfied". I am ready to accept it e.g. from Chrome OS, but not from Microsoft.

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by omk »

sp332 wrote: post #54
dagw wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using it almost exclusively on my laptop for the past few month as an experiment. And honestly it's a perfectly fine browser that basically just works as well as any other browser. That being said I cannot come up with any good argument why you should switch to using it instead of whatever you are currently using.

Yeah, I've been really impressed with Edge. If I had started using Edge instead of having all my stuff in Firefox, I probably never would have bothered switching.

The developer tools on Edge are not on par with Chrome or Firefox. That is one reason I stay away. I don't mind using the browser once in a while when I need more sessions than my Chrome profiles.

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

ygra wrote: post #56
ekianjo wrote: post #44

I shall add it's funny they keep saying "Microsoft Loves Linux" but refuses to release any of their major desktop client software for Desktop Linux.

“Refuse” is a fairly strong word and suggests there is a Linux version available and just withheld. Software and features don't just appear out of nowhere.

Indeed. Not to mention that Office Online works just fine in a browser under Linux.

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by Tarean »

dumbmatter wrote: post #6

One of the most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs is "we want our browser experience to move to our phones". That's funny, my most common request is "IT'S BEEN LIKE 5 YEARS, CAN YOU GUYS FINALLY SUPPORT ALL OF THE INDEXEDDB API? EVEN SAFARI DOES IT NOW!" So sad when poor multinational corporations simply don't have the resources to compete with obscenely wealthy organization…

I don't use it as my main browser but it starts basically instantly, is reasonably snappy and uses far less resources than either firefox or chrome. If you don't have your browser open all the time it seems like a reasonable alternative.

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by [deleted] »

Pharylon wrote: post #51
IvanK_net wrote: post #29

The performance of Edge is comparable to Chrome or Firefox. It is a really great product. The sad part is, that they were keeping it Win10-only for several years. I think, that if they made Edge available for every platform and every OS earlier, they could have 20 - 50 % of the market by now. The funny part is, that there is NO EDGE FOR WINDOWS. Precisely, Edge is for Windows 10 only, which is the minority of all Win…

On the other hand, there's no real point in supporting Windows 7 now. It's only two years away from EOL.

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Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by eightysixfour »

dagw wrote: post #19
ekianjo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs Are there really people using Microsoft Edge out there? I mean, because they want to, not because they have to?

I've been using it almost exclusively on my laptop for the past few month as an experiment. And honestly it's a perfectly fine browser that basically just works as well as any other browser. That being said I cannot come up with any good argument why you should switch to using it instead of whatever you are currently using.

I switched for battery life. Chrome just crushed my laptop.

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by jccalhoun »

mixedbit wrote: post #59

Edge is a good browser, people seem to default to criticizing it because of its infamous predecessor. We should root for Edge, it is in the open Web best interest to have several browsers sharing the market.

Edge extensions got off to a slow start which hurt it quite a bit for me. Now it has a decent (although still small) number of extensions that cover most of the must-haves for me. It is my number 3 browser behind firefox and chrome.
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