Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge

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Post by baud147258 » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 7:57 AM UTC

Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge
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Post by harel » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 8:44 AM UTC

I wonder if we'll get Edge for Linux then... Considering the shift MS products have gone (VS Code is great!) I would be happy to give it a try.

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Post by stefan_ » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 8:45 AM UTC

Disabled "Ad blocking", turned on PlayReady DRM. Bring on the new webbrowsing experience.

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Post by Chico11Kidlet » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 8:46 AM UTC

Wow what are even some of those services?! "IOS Promotion Service"?! Realised where part of chrome's "memory hog" stereotype may come from...

Re: Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge

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Post by nitinreddy88 » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 8:52 AM UTC

stefan_ wrote: post #3

Disabled "Ad blocking", turned on PlayReady DRM. Bring on the new webbrowsing experience.

Please read article properly - “disabled or replaced” services.

Currently I am using Edge chromium with ublock origin installed. So they didn’t block anything related to ads

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Post by fxfan » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 8:53 AM UTC

stefan_ wrote: post #3

Disabled "Ad blocking", turned on PlayReady DRM. Bring on the new webbrowsing experience.

Please don't spread fud. It says replaced or turned off.

Their DRM makes Netflix 4k. Chrome already has DRM.

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Post by pgeorgi » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 8:55 AM UTC

Chico11Kidlet wrote: post #4

Wow what are even some of those services?! "IOS Promotion Service"?! Realised where part of chrome's "memory hog" stereotype may come from...

Some of those services seem to be target specific: Everything starting with "Chrome OS" aren't part of any chrome build outside Chrome OS.

IOS Promotion Service might be https://codereview.chromium.org/2643723004/, so that's running on iOS and nowhere else. As for its value, that's for somebody else to decide (or everybody for themselves).

(Disclosure: working on Chrome OS firmware, which shares approximately no code at all with the components that end up in Chrome userland or any of its derivatives)

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Post by larkeith » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 8:57 AM UTC

harel wrote: post #2

I wonder if we'll get Edge for Linux then... Considering the shift MS products have gone (VS Code is great!) I would be happy to give it a try.

Out of curiosity, why use Edge over Firefox?

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Post by fxbl0i » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 9:20 AM UTC

larkeith wrote: post #8

harel wrote: post #2

I wonder if we'll get Edge for Linux then... Considering the shift MS products have gone (VS Code is great!) I would be happy to give it a try.

Out of curiosity, why use Edge over Firefox?

It doesn't use Gecko.

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Post by daliusd » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 9:20 AM UTC

larkeith wrote: post #8

harel wrote: post #2

I wonder if we'll get Edge for Linux then... Considering the shift MS products have gone (VS Code is great!) I would be happy to give it a try.

Out of curiosity, why use Edge over Firefox?

While I use Firefox daily on Ubuntu there are still some pain points that affect me directly

* Offscreen canvas. E.g. samples from here do not work for me https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/08/offscreen-...

* There are two problems with development:

  1. Firefox does not catch some exceptions. This problem is fixed in 67 version so I can wait (but I still need to wait).

  2. Firefox crashes for me randomly sometimes when I restart React dev server.