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Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Post by kgraves »

nailer wrote: post #14
kgraves wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a good alternative to chrome for those sites that support nothing else. Edge is literally Chrome with Microsoft slapped on top of it.

No. They're working on a big privacy dashboard which blocks tracking cookies as well as other stuff: https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/whats-next Video: https://edgetipscdn.microsoft.com/insider-site/images/whatsn...

Still not buying it. I don't trust Microsoft at all with privacy especially with what they did to Windows 10.

Telemetry & spying is everywhere with everything that they build now even in their calculator[0][1].

I would stick to Ungoogled/Chromium, Safari or Firefox thanks.

[0] https://git.io/fj4Wl

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148

Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Post by tshanmu »

aardshark wrote: post #21
adgasf wrote: post #4

Question about MS strategy: why would someone use this over Chromium or Firefox?

Well speaking for me personally, Firefox runs terribly on my Macbook and it would be nice to have an alternative to Chrome.

this is not my experience, firefox quantum has been always faster and reliable than Chrome on MBP.

Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Post by pavlov »

userbinator wrote: post #19

It's just their Chromium shell, and not using their own rendering engine. (In case anyone was wondering if this was about EdgeHTML being ported.)

EdgeHTML is being killed on Windows as well. Chromium with Microsoft chrome is their new default browser.

Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Post by butteroverflow »

DHPersonal wrote: post #9
adgasf wrote: post #4

Question about MS strategy: why would someone use this over Chromium or Firefox?

If Microsoft integrates all the functionality of the original Edge into Chromium Edge, then it will be a great browser to use on their Surface line of tablet computers. Without those features, it’s a non-Google Chrome with a large company backing its feature updates and contributing to the codebase’s continued improvement, along with syncing features and potential better integration with Windows. Firefox has a lot of…

Yeah. Our postal service's website has a small badge on every page. It translates to something like 'developed for and in Chrome'.

They must be bragging about it, or something.

It reminds me of all those 'best viewed in Internet Explorer at 800x600' from the beginning of the century.

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