But I thought edge was faster. Every time I open a new installation, it's got that page with the speedometers showing that "edge is faster".
Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
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Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
#662Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really better though - having only two real browsers is not good for open standards or the open web. This will be especially true when Firefox inevitably shutters it's in-house efforts in a couple of years due to the amount of sites that won't work with it , and starts using Chromium too. Staring into my crystal ball tells me Firefox will become "janky" in the eyes of users on account of how many sites don't…
> This will be especially true when Firefox inevitably shutters it's in-house efforts in a couple of years due to the amount of sites that won't work with it, and starts using Chromium too. It seems very unlikely: - Mozilla has been in a far worse uderdog position before during the IE6 era, with way more incompatible sites and less funding. - Mozilla is not for profit. Fighting for the open Web is one of their goal.…
Agree about the tab container. Incredibly useful.
Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
#663What other options do they have? Even on HN you hear "I use Egde to download Chrome". Many of you here don't test your own work in Edge. At the same time Microsoft is getting the heat that Windows 10 is unstable and the last major update shows that it is. Very urgently, I imagine, Microsoft is trying to change the perception of Windows 10 by doing everything they can to make it more stable. Changing the browser engin…
No, I tell my friends and family to use Firefox. There is more than one decent browser out there. I don't like the idea of everything using the Chromium engine; monoculture _is_ bad and we shouldn't put our eggs in the one basket. That said, IE and Edge have historically been terrible both compatibility and performance-wise. It's not just websites that aren't tested in Edge - my experience with Edge is that all aspec…
Define Monoculture. For me, both Firefox and Chrome are developed under the US law, and in this sense, they are both the same.
Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
#664To be fair, chakra is/was a really really solid JavaScript engine. And it's probably easier to embed than anything inside Chrome.
(https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore)
Hope they are still comitted to chakra.
Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
#665What other options do they have? Even on HN you hear "I use Egde to download Chrome". Many of you here don't test your own work in Edge. At the same time Microsoft is getting the heat that Windows 10 is unstable and the last major update shows that it is. Very urgently, I imagine, Microsoft is trying to change the perception of Windows 10 by doing everything they can to make it more stable. Changing the browser engin…
> What other options do they have?
Especially after Mariani left almost 2 years ago to join Facebook. I assume everything went to shit shortly before he left.
Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
#666Earlier quoted context omitted.
Poisonous name? Are you referring to Visual Studio? That's widely considered as one of the best IDEs around.
Yes. At the same time it's hated by many anti-MS folks, especially in the Linux/OS X crowd.
I don’t know any anti-MS folks anymore. Those who were that generally stopped hating MS when MS stopped being a threat to the existence of their preferred platform, or to open source in general.
Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
#667What other options do they have? Even on HN you hear "I use Egde to download Chrome". Many of you here don't test your own work in Edge. At the same time Microsoft is getting the heat that Windows 10 is unstable and the last major update shows that it is. Very urgently, I imagine, Microsoft is trying to change the perception of Windows 10 by doing everything they can to make it more stable. Changing the browser engin…
Developers just need to do their due diligence to ensure their sites and products work on the entire spectrum. Including Opera, Safari, Chromium, Firefox, ie/edge, etc. Does it really add that much development time to just open a site and compare across multiple browsers?
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Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
#668Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
#669Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This will be especially true when Firefox inevitably shutters it's in-house efforts in a couple of years due to the amount of sites that won't work with it, and starts using Chromium too. It seems very unlikely: - Mozilla has been in a far worse uderdog position before during the IE6 era, with way more incompatible sites and less funding. - Mozilla is not for profit. Fighting for the open Web is one of their goal.…
>Firefox is now a fast, lean and fantastic browser again. This is not my experience. On my MacBook Pro it is slow and tends to cause system lockups on a regular basis. Everytime there is a new announcement about how the new Firefox has improved performance and stability I give it a try and each time am disappointed. On my phone the Firefox browser is almost unusably slow and slow enough that it can't replace Chrome.…
If one doesn't want to rely on anecdata, here [1] is a benchmark. Based on my experience and this benchmark, I don't how such a negative opinion can be supported.
[1]: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3213031/computers/best-web-b...
Re: Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
#670What other options do they have? Even on HN you hear "I use Egde to download Chrome". Many of you here don't test your own work in Edge. At the same time Microsoft is getting the heat that Windows 10 is unstable and the last major update shows that it is. Very urgently, I imagine, Microsoft is trying to change the perception of Windows 10 by doing everything they can to make it more stable. Changing the browser engin…
Well, it's not my fault that I can't use Edge on my operating system of choice. It's not "YOU don't test your work in Egde" but "YOU don't test your work in Edge but you wouldn't be able to". So please, do not blame the users, but Microsoft.