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Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by laken »

filoleg wrote: post #11
Scarbutt wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I feel the opposite, I prefer the Firefox dev tools by far. The CSS Grid and CSS Animation tools are lacking hard on Chrome. I feel though that overall they're close to equal, some tools are better on one platform than the other, but it's personal preference at the end of the day.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by retonom »

It's nice to see MS pushing for tracking protection as well. Firefox now takes the lead on privacy issues. Google will try to hold it off as not to hurt their own business. People will eventually migrate away from Chrome because of this and the tracking/ad business will go down. Now is a good time to do some thinking if you're in the online tracking and/or ad business.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by irrational »

scanr wrote: post #20

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.

2025 is the official end of life year. You can find a page on MS's website with all the end of life dates.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by spookyuser »

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 am so sad about the fact that Edge can no longer read epubs and seems to have (so far) sub par pdf reading. It's been my go to pdf reader for a while now and I love the way it scrolls. It is so smooth - just like preview on a mac. I haven't found anything else that comes close to edge for the smoothness of its pdf reading on windows, so I will definitely be holding out on this update for as long as I can. I don't really need two chromium based browsers on my PC anyway.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by irrational »

filoleg wrote: post #11
Scarbutt wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't agree. I think it is just what you are used to using. I'm used to Firefox and find their dev tools to be superior to Chrome, but I'm pretty sure that is just because I'm just more used to Firefox's dev tools (having used them since the firebug days).

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by noahster11 »

irrational wrote: post #23
scanr wrote: post #20

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.

2025 is the official end of life year. You can find a page on MS's website with all the end of life dates.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17454/lifecycle-faq...

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by hyperdimension »

rdiddly wrote: post #26

Linked at https://microsoftedgewelcome.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy : "We will honor your choices about browsing data and collect only what is needed to make your experiences better."

Given Microsoft's recent telemetry "features", I don't really think Microsoft's idea of "needed" and mine intersect...
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