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.
At least it sends your passwords to NSA skipping Google.
New Microsoft Edge
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#42I 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_...
This is cool, thanks for the link. As an end-user, how would you go about determining the urls to add to the list?
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#43Still no version for Linux. A lot of Linux users are getting impatient waiting for Microsoft to release this app.
A few I'd say.
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#44Been using the new Edge Browser since two weeks, mostly for testing our new web app. I must say i'm really impressed. The speed definitely is better than Firefox (which is my default). To give due credit, this is the best browser from Microsoft.
Which is ironic given that the core is now from Google.
Although that core was mostly from Apple, and that core was mostly from KDE.
Wonder how much of each is left.
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#45Been using the new Edge Browser since two weeks, mostly for testing our new web app. I must say i'm really impressed. The speed definitely is better than Firefox (which is my default). To give due credit, this is the best browser from Microsoft.
Which is ironic given that the core is now from Google.
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#46Taking a look at the privacy whitepaper [0], there's a long list of data gathering initiatives that seemingly need to be turned off manually (a number of sections explicitly mention opt-out rather than opt-in). I can't check the defaults though, since it doesn't run on Linux. The main problem with opt-out is Microsoft's track record of re-enabling telemetry after it has been turned off by the user, and that's not som…
Just about every update they push to my main workstation usually breaks something for quite a long time. the recent update which I thought I had deferred broke every single thumbnail and the system's ability to remake thumbnails on a machine that stores millions of video files. The heck with using their browser I don't want that to be broken after Avery pushed update too
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Afaik , websites on all chromium based browsers look same.(because core of these browsers are same)
So,testing on edge would render same as chrome.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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#49The main difference between Edge and Chrome is you have to reset your search engine to Google when you use Edge
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#50I 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.
What would you suggest they do instead?
Because if they don't roll their own around Blink the answer isn't going to be "Ship Firefox" because if you actually ask all your users and developers "Just ship Chrome" will come out way on top.
Not saying I agree with it but thats reality. I'm more disgusted by the browser mono culture than most and how so many engineers recoil when I bring up their work isn't functioning at all even in browsers like Safari let alone Firefox and they consistently make snarky comments like "We should just tell them to use Chrome".
> It would be like continuing to make mobile phones
I mean, they are https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-duo