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Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by filoleg »

Scarbutt wrote: post #9
ripdog wrote: post #7

So... What's the value proposition over, say, Firefox?

Not google and your web apps will work and be snappy. Not implying this is all good.

And if you do webdev, chrome dev tools are still the best. While firefox tools keep getting better, i still find myself regularly launching chrome just for those.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by iotku »

llampx wrote: post #3

If you use the PDF or e-book functionality in Edge, you may want to hold off on upgrading. The PDF scrolling is not as smooth as on the older version.

Yeah, I threw a sizeable PDF (800MB textbook) at it and it's choking pretty hard compared to old Edge to the point where it's barely usable.

Not a deal breaker for me because I don't have a touch screen and use an external PDF reader (sumatraPDF), but if I was using edge for heavy PDFs I would be rather disappointed

Seems fine for PDFs that are a bit less extreme, but nowhere near as smooth as old edge.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by wlesieutre »

llampx wrote: post #3

If you use the PDF or e-book functionality in Edge, you may want to hold off on upgrading. The PDF scrolling is not as smooth as on the older version.

Extra sad because Microsoft briefly had their own PDF program (Reader) in Windows 8, but removed it in favor of making Edge the default program for opening PDFs.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by 5350-uiop-1130 »

I haven't looked into it but I hope that the use of the Chromium engine means web standards and feature support on par with Chrome and Firefox. They mention less fragmentation for web developers so I hope that that is what they are alluding to.

I will "probably" never use this browser but I just hope that it doesn't open a new set of issues to deal with. I don't think it should

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by dtrailin »

llampx wrote: post #3

If you use the PDF or e-book functionality in Edge, you may want to hold off on upgrading. The PDF scrolling is not as smooth as on the older version.

I think generally scrolling is less smooth than in the old edge. That was one thing they got right and hopefully we'll see improvements in this area upstream in chromium.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by progfix »

wlesieutre wrote: post #13
llampx wrote: post #3

If you use the PDF or e-book functionality in Edge, you may want to hold off on upgrading. The PDF scrolling is not as smooth as on the older version.

Extra sad because Microsoft briefly had their own PDF program (Reader) in Windows 8, but removed it in favor of making Edge the default program for opening PDFs.

Yeah, it was briefly on Windows 10 as well, it was my favourite PDF reader and now it's gone. Good job Microsoft.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by [deleted] »

dstaley wrote: post #2

I'm really curious why they released to stable with so many basic features missing. For example, your bookmarks won't sync between devices (although that was recently re-enabled in the preview channels). It sounds like they're not pushing out automatic updates right now anyway, so I'm not sure what this announcement amounts to. Why not wait until the 20H1 Windows 10 feature update (which sounds like the update that w…

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Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by scanr »

It will make me happy to be able to stop supporting ie11 at some point in the future.

Sadly, it doesn’t appear that ie11 will have an end of life date as it’ll be supported as long as Windows 10 is and Windows 10 appears evergreen.

Hopefully Microsoft will make edge the default browser at some point.

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