Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Post by shashankjain16 » Tue, May 21, 2019, 8:42 AM UTC

Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS
blogs.windows.com

Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Post by gshdg » Tue, May 21, 2019, 11:16 AM UTC

I’m really interested to find out how they’re approaching privacy. If they take a strong stance, this might be a good alternative to chrome for those sites that support nothing else.

Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Post by saagarjha » Tue, May 21, 2019, 11:22 AM UTC

Discussed a bit yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19963291

Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Post by adgasf » Tue, May 21, 2019, 11:27 AM UTC

Question about MS strategy: why would someone use this over Chromium or Firefox?

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Post by tcper » Tue, May 21, 2019, 11:29 AM UTC

Finally, IE come back to Mac, since IE5 in Mac OS 9.

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Post by sureaboutthis » Tue, May 21, 2019, 11:29 AM UTC

gshdg wrote: post #2

I’m really interested to find out how they’re approaching privacy. If they take a strong stance, this might be a good alternative to chrome for those sites that support nothing else.

Windows itself is not a bastion of privacy.

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Post by SentientNo4 » Tue, May 21, 2019, 11:34 AM UTC

adgasf wrote: post #4

Question about MS strategy: why would someone use this over Chromium or Firefox?

I assume they bet on people who want to use the Chromium engine without all the Google stuff and corporate people who use macs but work with MS infrastructure (like Exchange and Sharepoint).

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Post by kgraves » Tue, May 21, 2019, 11:35 AM UTC

gshdg wrote: post #2

I’m really interested to find out how they’re approaching privacy. If they take a strong stance, this might be a good alternative to chrome for those sites that support nothing else.

> a good alternative to chrome for those sites that support nothing else.

Edge is literally Chrome with Microsoft slapped on top of it.

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Post by DHPersonal » Tue, May 21, 2019, 11:35 AM UTC

adgasf wrote: post #4

Question about MS strategy: why would someone use this over Chromium or Firefox?

If Microsoft integrates all the functionality of the original Edge into Chromium Edge, then it will be a great browser to use on their Surface line of tablet computers. Without those features, it’s a non-Google Chrome with a large company backing its feature updates and contributing to the codebase’s continued improvement, along with syncing features and potential better integration with Windows. Firefox has a lot of good features still, but its small usage amount has made some development budgets ignore it or drop support of it on some sites I have visited.

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Post by nailer » Tue, May 21, 2019, 11:36 AM UTC

adgasf wrote: post #4

Question about MS strategy: why would someone use this over Chromium or Firefox?

It's much faster. Microsoft ripped out about 30 different Google-specific components, I think @ericlaw tweeted the list a little while ago.

Additionally Microsoft pay attention to developers. Chrome Devtools has has a Headers tab, with response headers and then request headers. There's a seperate tab called 'Response' which only contains the response body. I fed this back to Google (suggesting a request and response tab with headers and body) and (per Google) the response was from an engineer saying they personally liked it so therefore there was no reason to change it. Microsoft's feedback was they're actually looking at more logical layouts.