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Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Post by tapoxi » Tue, May 21, 2019, 2:06 PM UTC

mcny wrote: post #63

tapoxi wrote: post #45

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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.

> 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. If there is one specific website that requires Google Chrome, you could use Google Chrome for that and use Mozilla Firefox for everything else?

It's our SSO, so its every internal tool we have. Gmail, Slack, Jira, Confluence, GitLab, etc.

Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Post by kenbellows » Tue, May 21, 2019, 4:51 PM UTC

princekolt wrote: post #43

gshdg wrote: post #41

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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.

Nowadays many applications, and especially most big-name business application suites (G Suite, Microsoft Office online, etc), are converting all their web applications to Progressive Web Apps, adding Service Workers and such so that they work just fine when you're offline and sync to backup document changes and such whenever you reconnect later. Give it a couple years and it won't be a problem anymore.

Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Post by darkpuma » Wed, May 22, 2019, 12:35 AM UTC

chapium wrote: post #27

adgasf wrote: post #4

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

Firefox runs rather poorly on Mac.

That's not been my experience.

Re: Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

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Post by aardshark » Thu, May 23, 2019, 8:34 AM UTC

tshanmu wrote: post #23

aardshark wrote: post #21

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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.

Do you have a newer MBP? I'm running Sierra on a 2013 MBP. I suspect part of my experience is due to Firefox relying more on the GPU than Chrome, and the GPU in this laptop sucks. I haven't experimented with turning off hardware acceleration in FF though.

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Post by tshanmu » Fri, May 31, 2019, 9:31 AM UTC

aardshark wrote: post #74

tshanmu wrote: post #23

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

Do you have a newer MBP? I'm running Sierra on a 2013 MBP. I suspect part of my experience is due to Firefox relying more on the GPU than Chrome, and the GPU in this laptop sucks. I haven't experimented with turning off hardware acceleration in FF though.

yes, late 2017 MBP - ff Quantum does not use GPU on my MBP (when being on battery as well - pretty same performance) - that said, I dont use FF for any graphics heavy workloads - just normal stuff (jira, a few cloud consoles, gerrit etc)