If anyone told me a decade ago that a day will come when I will feel sorry for Microsoft browser technology going away...
Ouch. True. So weird for me to feel that way.
Goodbye, EdgeHTML
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#52If I'm using Safari as my default browser, does it make sense to switch to Firefox just to support them? Interesting that Safari is not coming up in any of these articles as a third competitor, but maybe the fact that it's limited to Mac means it has very small market share.
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#53Seems so sad that Mozilla is literally begging people to give Firefox a try. Even if someone believes that the browser Game of Thrones seems to go to Google, I cannot see how anyone would settle for the second-best choice especially when everything is FREE..
They plainly admit that Firefox can just hold it’s own and it is still NOT the fastest and best browser experience out there.
When I launch Chrome I just get this feeling that it is a super lightweight desktop app that manages a ton of tabs efficiently.
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#54Mozilla. What a great, open and free place, where you can't write your opinion under articles.
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#55Seriously, switch to Firefox. It's good again, and prioritizes privacy.[0] After Chrome's forced-sign-in debacle [1] I switched away from Chrome on all my platforms (Windows, Linux, Android) and haven't missed a thing. [0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/ [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18055161
I want to love FF, I really do!
But the fact that it causes my CPU usage to go through the roof every couple of minutes for no apparent reason makes me want to pull my hair out...
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#56Seriously, switch to Firefox. It's good again, and prioritizes privacy.[0] After Chrome's forced-sign-in debacle [1] I switched away from Chrome on all my platforms (Windows, Linux, Android) and haven't missed a thing. [0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/ [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18055161
What about Chromium?
Using Google's browser engine still gives them a lot of control, even if you aren't using their trimmings.
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#57EdgeHTML felt really great. It was the UX that made me hate Edge. As if they thought I was 65+ years old.
Chrome's UX is much better imo, but based on rendering engine I wouldn't have cared much.
I just hope they don't think it was their engine that made me (and probably others) switch.
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#58If anyone told me a decade ago that a day will come when I will feel sorry for Microsoft browser technology going away...
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
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#59If anyone told me a decade ago that a day will come when I will feel sorry for Microsoft browser technology going away...
It's too bad Microsoft didn't get broken up in the 90s. We'd probably have more browser options.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everyone seems to be missing that this is Microsoft’s tacit recognition that Electron is the future of apps. Electron has abysmal performance and doesn’t work on ARM. This is them fixing fundamental chromium issues, to improve Electron performance and give themselves a further wedge beyond TypeScript
Look at VS Code: Electron doesn't have abysmal performance. It's just what people do with it that causes problems.
VS Code is a possible sign for why Microsoft leading Electron on all fronts (from taking over GitHub, to collaborating much more directly on Chromium) might be good for computers. If the average Electron app starts to act more like VS Code, that's good for everybody.