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Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by aabbcc1241 »

endemic wrote: post #38
filoleg wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 like I regularly see similar comments, touting the superiority of Chrome devtools. I haven’t used Chrome in a few years; what do they have that others don’t?

The only moment I would use chrome devtools is when I need to debug remote devices (Android webview)

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by vtail »

zerr wrote: post #89
techsupporter wrote: post #39

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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.

Interesting, I thought FF being a XUL app should've been easier to customize.

Firefox is actively moving away from XUL.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by jpadkins »

blowski wrote: post #109
dessant wrote: post #99

I have published some of my extensions for the new Edge browser on their store [1], the submission experience was straightforward and pleasant, and the extensions were published in a couple of days after manual review. Updates were also reviewed and published in a timely manner. More importantly, during extension submissions and reviews I did not feel abused as a developer, something which I cannot say about the Chro…

Because they need developers more than developers need them. If they become as dominant as Apple and Google in their respective spaces, expect your experience to degrade.

or put another way: when they become a target for bad actors to abuse extensions, expect the review process to be more difficult.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by herf »

c-smile wrote: post #76

What happened with font rendering? Fonts are rendered with thinner lines in new Edge (on the left): http://terrainformatica.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/IE-fo... Such rendering does not match rest of Windows... New Edge is definitely less readable, and Google Chrome exhibits the same problem.

Left one (Edge?) has Cleartype enabled - you can see RGB edges if you zoom in.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by altitudinous »

On MacOS it requires admin privilege to install.

I am done with that after all the crap that previous software with admin rights installed. I cleaned it up and swore I would not install anything that required admin rights again - for my own security and peace of mind. What does it need admin rights for?

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by jpadkins »

jonny_eh wrote: post #102
pizza wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Although I don't think such a comment is appropriate for this thread, I'm curious as to what you mean.

It's good to have alternatives.

do you believe Democrat and Republicans have significant policy differences?

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by dunham »

downerending wrote: post #114
dunham wrote: post #45

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

So you're saying that if the license was in English you would have read it?

To be honest, I paid more attention to the Russian version than I would English. I kinda know how to pronounce it, and it's fun to see if I can figure out any of the words.
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