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Re: New Microsoft Edge

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Still no version for Linux. A lot of Linux users are getting impatient waiting for Microsoft to release this app.

Citation needed? Linux users pining for Microsoft products is a rarity. Why would they go for a closed-source browser when they can go with the open-source, non-google Chromium (same engine) or Firefox?

Re: New Microsoft Edge

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I switched from Chrome for Edge's native integration with Windows credentialing and Office 365. In a corporate environment that relies heavily on Windows and the Office suite, it really works very well. Its elegant account management between personal and work instances is also fantastic.

You can configure Firefox to do native Windows authentication in an O366 enterprise environment. I have done this on my corporate laptop, and it lets me use Firefox as my primary browser for any corporate / SSO site.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Integrated_...

Re: New Microsoft Edge

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Note: This web page is for the Microsoft Edge browser, but it seems to detect your OS and shows the Edge version and download information for that platform (others are hidden behind a menu). So if some comments here seem to be talking about specific platforms, this could be the reason why.

I’ve been using Edge on Windows for a few months now. It crashes so many times (all windows just disappear suddenly) and makes my system unresponsive. It’s clear that Edge isn’t able to handle a few windows with a few tabs each, with memory management being the core issue.

When starting out to try it, I knew Edge would be using a lot of RAM since it’s based on Chromium, but I didn’t expect it to crash so much.

So Firefox stays, and continues to be, the primary browser.

On iOS, Edge is just another “skin” over Safari/WebKit underneath. It seems ok — i didn’t notice anything phenomenally better than some other browsers.

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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

Speaking of Chromium-based browsers - Has anyone here tried Vivaldi? How is it?

I used it for two years and switched to Edge. Vivaldi has nice features but it's a bit slow to start, and it has a few annoying bugs once in a while.

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> More privacy & control I suppose that excludes MS's aggressive use of telemetry in Edge itself

Good. Great software learns from its users. It also makes developers' lives infinitely easier and ergo makes the product 10x better for endusers.

Great software companies talk to their users rather than take the data. Sorry but fuck the developers and cost. If your product can't make it to market without telemetry, then you have other problems.

Re: New Microsoft Edge

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Still no version for Linux. A lot of Linux users are getting impatient waiting for Microsoft to release this app.

Citation needed? Linux users pining for Microsoft products is a rarity. Why would they go for a closed-source browser when they can go with the open-source, non-google Chromium (same engine) or Firefox?

One reason I might use it on Linux is to test our website/product UX on Edge and ensure wider coverage.

Re: New Microsoft Edge

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I don’t understand why Microsoft are still in the browser game. It would be like continuing to make mobile phones or mp3 players which they also lost a long time ago.

Re: New Microsoft Edge

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Still no version for Linux. A lot of Linux users are getting impatient waiting for Microsoft to release this app.

Hear, hear. When Edge for Linux launches, developers for modern Windows customers (no IE) can finally do away with the Windows VMs to test their applications.

I'm glad I don't need to support Safari because there's no way in hell that that's ever going to come to Linux (or Windows again).

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