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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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I’m really interested to find out how they’re approaching privacy. If they take a strong stance, this might be a good alternative to chrome for those sites that support nothing else.

Why not Safari? It's fast, power-efficient, and native.

And a lot of stupidly optimized-for-chrome sites break in it. Plus extensibility is limited.

Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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post #27
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Question about MS strategy: why would someone use this over Chromium or Firefox?

Firefox runs rather poorly on Mac.

That's a terribly sweeping generalization, and is clearly not everyone's experience (see for example tshanmu's comment a few minutes before yours).

Have you filed a bug report with specifics of the poor behavior you experience, so that Mozilla engineers can potentially investigate the issue?

Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not Safari? It's fast, power-efficient, and native.

And a lot of stupidly optimized-for-chrome sites break in it. Plus extensibility is limited.

Maybe if everything you use is a web-app that makes sense, but I avoid that like the plague. Maybe in the wonderful world of Silicon Valley you can rely on that, but in the real world internet connectivity can be choppy, especially when inside trains and planes.

Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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I’m really interested to find out how they’re approaching privacy. If they take a strong stance, this might be a good alternative to chrome for those sites that support nothing else.

Why not Safari? It's fast, power-efficient, and native.

In my case our SSO requires a FIDO U2F hardware token and Safari doesn't support FIDO U2F at all. Someone wrote a third party extension but I can't get that working.

Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

From a practical standpoint exactly what does Google collect from one’s browsing activity when they use Chrome? Not sure I’ve ever seen the technical analysis of what kinds of exposure users have.

I'm sure it's not limited to this but there are a lot of dark UI patterns in Chrome, e.g. any Google web login also logs you in to Chrome so Google "has permission" to record your browsing history and other browsing data.

I mean, I think Google gathers browsing history through other means (being embedded on a huge proportion of all webpages), but in the case of Chrome/Chromium, there is a separate password for the sync artifacts, I think at least in principle they are stored separately (especially since they now include passwords, social security numbers, etc.).

My sync password is different from my account password, I think it generally unlocks both at once if your sync password is the same as your account password, and you log in to your Google account.

I think this is also possible with the way that Microsoft has made "Edge" work with Microsoft accounts rather than Google accounts.

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