The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview • Hacker News Board

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by olyjohn » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 8:21 PM UTC

gpvos wrote: post #87

agumonkey wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine if everything that was shelved due to marketing policies were compiled into a disc.

And opensourced.

Microsoft <3 Open Source. I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by XzetaU8 » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 8:21 PM UTC

ongezoutenboter wrote: post #4

What about the new fluent design language? Where is the fucking transparency in the tab bar MS.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/discussio...

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by mrpippy » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 8:21 PM UTC

altitudinous wrote: post #127

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?

Maybe to install an autoupdater?

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by lostmsu » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 8:21 PM UTC

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.

This comparison is sort of meaningless, until you tuned Clear Type.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 8:21 PM UTC

altitudinous wrote: post #127

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?

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Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by Krasnol » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 8:23 PM UTC

Great. Now give me a safe and reasonable way to uninstall it.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by lostmsu » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 8:24 PM UTC

skierguy wrote: post #167

Aaaaand the EULA and menu buttons are in Italian when I download from the en-us version of the site. I knew there would be 90 languages, but I didn't know I'd need to learn all of them to use Edge!

Just strip the query part of the URL. I guess the submitter of the blog post is an Italian.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by vkaku » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 8:24 PM UTC

Installed it. I use Firefox, but now I don't need Chromium/Chrome/Brave for any websites that do detect Blink.

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by crescentfresh » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 8:25 PM UTC

Installed itself entirely in German. What?

Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

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Post by lotsofpulp » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 8:27 PM UTC

deaps wrote: post #84

So as somewhat of an outsider to the 'web game' as far as most people here (at HN) are concerned, but a relatively aware patron of web browsing software, I'll add my thoughts on the 'web browser' game... I feel like most people's browser of choice is chosen for reasons specific to their needs. For example: I think that Firefox gives me a bit of additional privacy. I think that Safari gives me that additional privacy…

> I think that Safari gives me that additional privacy as well.

Safari provides a material improvement in battery life.