Jesus Christ, Edge is an ACTUALLY GOOD WEB BROWSER. It’s based on Chromium, so there’s no usable difference, plus you can access https://passwords.google.com in Edge with no issue. Most of the sites are tested on Google Chrome first, so they’ll be just as well-optimised for Microsoft Edge with no fuss whatsoever, 'sides from Google’s nagging, which is just as annoying, imo
Really. That’s your pitch. It’s like chrome. Awesome…
Better than IE at least.
Firefox > Chrome > Edge > IE
Exactly. Since users already have Chrome installed, even if it’s “Google Chrome at home”, it’s still solid
You should be flogged with a herring imho
Firefox users are literally screaming right now. This isn’t even a unpopular opinion. This is a garbage opinion.
Confirming i am a firefox user and came here to scream
I only have Edge to use Teams in it, because it does not 100% work in Firefox (I’m in Linux).
Edge is just so ANNOYING. When I open Firefox for the first time, sure it gives my some options to set it up, but I can just not do it and start browsing.
When I open Edge for the first time, I have to click decline->next half a dozen times. It won’t let me do anything else.
Then at random times some new popup messages pop up, informing me of another way I can give more of my data to Microsoft.What I want in a browser is a window through which I view websites. I don’t want it to actually put itself in the foreground, which Edge keeps doing.
Good thing you didn’t post this in the privacy community, or you’ll be perma-banned. OP uses Google’s password manager. Do I need to say anything more? As much as convenient you feel, you do realise that now you’re vendor-locked in Google’s ecosystem?
Try exporting your password in CSV or JSON format. I bet you can’t. Bitwarden allows that. KeePass allows that. Even proprietary platform like Dashlane allows it, but that’s out of the topic here.
Coming back to the philosophy behind software licenses, Chrome and Chromium-based projects use BSD 3-clause license, with most of them being company devs, working for Google’s interest. Permissive copyleft licenses like BSD and MIT are a trap for big tech to either get volunteers to work for them or take ownership of the project by sheer volume.
Remember what Apple did to the Mach kernel, which was initially open-source under CMU-BSD and BSD kernel under BSD 3-clause license? They refuse to share their own modifications even today, but they have the balls to use the Mach microkernel and BSD monolithic kernel souce code in their MacOS and iPhones under their heavily modified XNU kernel.
Google and Microsoft are profit-driven. However, Mozilla is a non-profit. Google tried to bring web DRM literally a few weeks ago under RFC. Right now, there are three mainstream engines: Gecko (Firefox), WebKit (Safari) and Blink (Chromium, basically a fork of WebKit). There’s another one still in work, called Servo (by Mozilla, for some unknown browser, could also be Firefox) under development, which is supposed to be very fast, and also safe, thanks to Rust. Gecko engine is very important for the web, although you may not care, other people who are concerned about the balance of power in web do. Choose your players wisely.
Counterpoint: When I accidentally run edge, it leaves a search box on my desktop and an icon in the system tray. It got crappier.
Edge would be fine if it weren’t spyware and nagware. In functionality it’s … a web browser. In privacy it’s a horror. In its proclivity to nag you to perdition its UX is splatterpunk.
