New Microsoft Edge

#1

Post by fasicle » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 9:53 AM UTC

New Microsoft Edge
microsoft.com

Re: New Microsoft Edge

#2

Post by lubos » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 10:19 AM UTC

I must admit, the landing page looks slick and very un-Microsoft.

Re: New Microsoft Edge

#3

Post by jmc5788 » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 10:38 AM UTC

lubos wrote: post #2

I must admit, the landing page looks slick and very un-Microsoft.

All of our corporate computers have this now instead of IE11....very refreshing as a web developer to have something modern to target for intranet apps.

Re: New Microsoft Edge

#4

Post by Barrin92 » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 10:40 AM UTC

I really like the reader mode and speech-to-text engine, it's very high quality. Just one question though, is the browser going to have linux support at some point?

Re: New Microsoft Edge

#5

Post by maps7 » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 10:44 AM UTC

I'll stick to Firefox

Re: New Microsoft Edge

#6

Post by perryizgr8 » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 10:55 AM UTC

I just want them to properly sync tabs and bookmarks between PC and Android, and that would make Edge perfect for me.

Re: New Microsoft Edge

#7

Post by dvfjsdhgfv » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 11:01 AM UTC

Interestingly, one of the most important battles in the browser (and apps in general) market now is the privacy aspect. There are two vendor groups here: one explicitly mentions it (Apple, Mozilla), and the other remains silent, speaking only about non-provacy features (Google, Microsoft).

Re: New Microsoft Edge

#8

Post by varbhat » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 11:03 AM UTC

Barrin92 wrote: post #4

I really like the reader mode and speech-to-text engine, it's very high quality. Just one question though, is the browser going to have linux support at some point?

It may have linux support at some time(like they have given hint before) but many linux users are not going to use this browser.

Re: New Microsoft Edge

#9

Post by filipn » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 11:05 AM UTC

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #7

Interestingly, one of the most important battles in the browser (and apps in general) market now is the privacy aspect. There are two vendor groups here: one explicitly mentions it (Apple, Mozilla), and the other remains silent, speaking only about non-provacy features (Google, Microsoft).

There is an explicit section for privacy on the page as I can see, there is even a dedicated page to it: https://microsoftedgewelcome.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy

Also they wrote a privacy whitepaper for Edge as well: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whit...

Re: New Microsoft Edge

#10

Post by varbhat » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 11:07 AM UTC

I am using Firefox at this time(only complaints are, performance which is less than chromium based browsers, and bugs in fenix).

I am not interested in Edge because it is just closed sourced fork of chromium.

Better use firefox or ungoogled chromium or new upcoming

Bold browser(brave browser fork without crypto or token)

https://github.com/BoldBrowser