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Re: Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 5:15 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #28

err4nt wrote: post #13

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These technologies are very deep, and the pool of developers with the skill, time, desire, and understanding to hack on these things is a very shallow pool to pull from. It seems like a lot of companies working on browsers are under-staffed so we seem to be experiencing more cross-company teamwork and collaboration than ever before - which is _great_ for standards and pushing us forward at a faster pace than before!

I would have thought most developers would absolutely jump at the chance to work on something as core as a browser! Having Chrome or Safari on your resume seems like it'd be golden.

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Re: Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser

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Post by garkin » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:02 AM UTC

catalogia wrote: post #31

garkin wrote: post #30

I personally use Edge almost daily for their awesome in-browser TTS and reading-mode feature. I inspire you to try it. For general purpose Google account integration convinience grip is yet overweights their constant effort to ruin UI and extensions. Also Edge App Store still lacks uMatrix, but already has uBlock Origin.

> I personally use Edge almost daily for their awesome in-browser TTS and reading-mode feature. I inspire you to try it. Why should I use Edge for that, instead of Firefox (which also has TTS in its reader-mode)?

I just tested it. They use built-in Microsoft Sam as TTS (at least in Windows), old and awfull.

TTS in the Edge is pretty close to the bleeding edge. It's good. Both English and Russian. And Edge is still a gorgeus Chromium without recent time UI degradations and without ad- and privacy- blocker intolerant management.

Personally i have a prejudice against Firefox for subjectively poor and ugly UI and old scars from their rendering issues.

Re: Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser

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Post by catalogia » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 1:22 PM UTC

garkin wrote: post #62

catalogia wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I personally use Edge almost daily for their awesome in-browser TTS and reading-mode feature. I inspire you to try it. Why should I use Edge for that, instead of Firefox (which also has TTS in its reader-mode)?

I just tested it. They use built-in Microsoft Sam as TTS (at least in Windows), old and awfull. TTS in the Edge is pretty close to the bleeding edge. It's good. Both English and Russian. And Edge is still a gorgeus Chromium without recent time UI degradations and without ad- and privacy- blocker intolerant management. Personally i have a prejudice against Firefox for subjectively poor and ugly UI and old scars from t…

Well you'd not catch me dead using Windows to be frank. MacOS has the best offline TTS available to consumers right now, so that's what I use for TTS.

Re: Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser

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Post by non-entity » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 1:27 PM UTC

I used edge for a while when I did a fresh install of windows and was too lazy to install anything else. It was overall fine but had a few issues that annyoed me. For one a ton of sites or malls would block me from using an "unsupported browser". I'm sure the sites would have worked just fine, and that it was lazy whitelisting of UA strings and not Edge's fault itself. It also still seemed to crash a lot for me, although not as much as when it was first released. And, of course, there was that article posted on here a few weeks(?) back that mentioned how edge has the most intrusive "telemetry".