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Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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techsupporter wrote: post #39
hybrids wrote: post #28

I get why Microsoft did what they did. I just still wish they would have at least OSS'd EdgeHTML instead of just shoving it in a closet somewhere.

I wish they had thrown in with helping Firefox instead of handing even more web influence over to Google. A percentage of what Microsoft spent on EdgeHTML contributed to the Firefox project—ideally as employee time—would go a long way, along with the counterbalance of putting the Firefox engine and code base front and center of more Windows users.

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Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by kgwxd »

hyperdimension wrote: post #30
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...

"better" too.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by faitswulff »

techsupporter wrote: post #39
hybrids wrote: post #28

I get why Microsoft did what they did. I just still wish they would have at least OSS'd EdgeHTML instead of just shoving it in a closet somewhere.

I wish they had thrown in with helping Firefox instead of handing even more web influence over to Google. A percentage of what Microsoft spent on EdgeHTML contributed to the Firefox project—ideally as employee time—would go a long way, along with the counterbalance of putting the Firefox engine and code base front and center of more Windows users.

Cynical thought: in no way am I claiming this was the only reason for Microsoft choosing Blink, but it’s probably easier to find and replace Google analytics APIs with Microsoft endpoints than it is to add them into a code base after the fact.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by dubcanada »

techsupporter wrote: post #39
hybrids wrote: post #28

I get why Microsoft did what they did. I just still wish they would have at least OSS'd EdgeHTML instead of just shoving it in a closet somewhere.

I wish they had thrown in with helping Firefox instead of handing even more web influence over to Google. A percentage of what Microsoft spent on EdgeHTML contributed to the Firefox project—ideally as employee time—would go a long way, along with the counterbalance of putting the Firefox engine and code base front and center of more Windows users.

Sadly Chromium is WAYYYY easier to development on than Firefox. Had Mozilla spent effort making the base of it as a framework in the same way Chromium is, they may have considered it.

There is a reason why Electron, QT etc use Chromium.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by n4r9 »

tomerico wrote: post #43
pacala wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meaningless. There are people claiming with a straight face that targeted ads make user experience better. Wholesale collection and aggregation of personal user data will continue unabated.

Curious, why would targeted ads make the user experience worse? (putting privacy aside)

It doesn't have to make it worse, just not make it better. Almost no one ever says "I love using such-and-such a website, the adverts on the side are just so relevant".

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by elygre »

dunham wrote: post #45
FpUser wrote: post #33

For some reason it had decided that I am Italian. Took me a while to decipher and bring it back to English

It gave me the page in english, but the license agreement in Russian.

Russian license agreement, and then menus and texts in Bulgarian! I ended up using the beta version I have installed to find the language setting :-)

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by scrollaway »

spookyuser wrote: post #24
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 r…

Epubs should really be readable by web browsers. They're HTML, essentially.
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