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Benchmarks are good but the overall experience is what matters the most. I'm really impressed by the startup time of Edge. I type some query in the Cortana search bar and press Enter, it launches Edge extremely fast. So far I really love the performance. However to make it my main browser I'm still waiting for adblocking extensions. I browse with a few tabs opened, one of them start randomly playing an ad video, at l…
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It feels to me like current benchmarks all measure execution time, not user time. Let's say you go from a reasonably sized web page to another, and then hit the back button. How long to load the previous page? Right click on a link and select open in new tab. How long does it take to open a new tab? It's definitely part of the user's perception of the browser's speed, but I don't think stuff like SunSpider and Octane…
Heavily related to this, one key insight that I think has been neglected is that JavaScript benchmarks do a bad job of measuring cold code. Most code on the Web is cold, because much Web browsing consists of fresh page loads. Heavily optimizing JITs are exactly what you don't want for cold code: time spent compiling is time you could have been spending running the code. But benchmarks consist of running the same code…
A better benchmark would be measuring page load times (or energy usage) or dynamic operations that included such cold JS code, since it would illustrate where performance improvements would be most beneficial.
Until another browser implements that (and supports Android phone / tablets), or I can find a third-party service that seamlessly offers the same options, I can't see myself switching from Chrome any time soon.
Chrome team can offer two distinct version , lightweight without extension and app support and super fast start time , and complete version.
Chrome turned to new JVM recently.just instead of java you developer should use Javascript.
I know this is google policy to push people to net (because it means more profit for google) but I don't want some company dictate what should I do. and at least with edge I have super fast load time and lightweight browser.
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I run exactly zero extension and used an ad-blocker for maybe 1 month in my whole lifetime. With that being said, I am genuinely curious how these 2 things are necessary for you to consider a browser. Are there extensions that I don't have that is crazy for me not to have?
I'm genuinely curious how anyone can spend any significant amount of time reading on the web and not use an ad-blocker. Even mostly-benign animated sidebar ads are too distracting for me.
I have very restricted list of sites which I think are good enough my attention and time.
p.s. and I spend 7 8 hour a day sitting and reading material and documents from net.
p.s-2. And I am okey with standard ads.Site owners has right to make living to, and I think using ads-blocker is selfish act.
I haven't been using the Windows 10 development builds, so I have yet to use Edge. As a front-end developer, I am excited we are getting a browser that seemingly supports all of the essentials (and prefixless too).
I wonder how much the Edge's performance will affect the average person's decision to use it or not. Browsers one up each other all the time and I'm sure Google's next major Chrome update will show improvements over the Edge. Renaming your browser won't change peoples' memory of Internet Explorer, even if Microsoft built Edge from the ground up. The average person is still going to be thinking IE when they see it. Wi…
To be clear: Microsoft did NOT build Edge from the ground up. Edge is IE without legacy code; that is all.
I thought they wrote a new rending engine and some other key features?
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I hate the HTML5Test (and alternative) sites with a passion for the exact reason you say. HTML5Test lists iOS 8 as having IndexedDB support but it's so broken it's unusable on that platform. Even Mozilla completely disabled it in their LocalForage library due to it's issues.
HTML5test is OK but caniuse.com shows more but people will complain about every browser test site since I started doing web dev 11 years ago. Here's the thing. Edge is IE without the legacy baggage and that's all it is. No different. It's still behind every other browser in its ability to comply with standards and APIs. Despite Microsoft's claim that it will be an "evergreen" browser, that it will update more often,…
The bit about Edge just being IE without the legacy baggage is incorrect. You can see the new standards and APIs they've either added or are adding here: http://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/?filter=f06000000
The thing I'm happiest about is the user-agent change so poorly written JavaScript / CSS that was written for webkit instead of standards will now magically start working.
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To be clear: Microsoft did NOT build Edge from the ground up. Edge is IE without legacy code; that is all.
Really? I thought they wrote a new rending engine and some other key features?
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I don't care if it's Trident, Edge, IE, whatever you want to call it... "The browser formerly known as Internet Explorer." has a history of infrequent releases. If with the "Edge" release this changes, then I'll accept that... MS said when they released IE10 that they were planning on more frequent releases... that hasn't happened.
IE11 has been doing automatic updates for at least a couple years now, by default.