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just checked my website visitor log. Only 1% people use Edge. It is not a surprise at all. The best way to secure a browser is just like what chrome and firefo
by tapirl 10y ago
just checked my website visitor log. Only 1% people use Edge.
It is not a surprise at all.
The best way to secure a browser is just like what chrome and firefox do: open source it.
- Someone1234 10y agoChrome isn't Open Source. Chromium is Open Source. Chrome adds a lot of proprietary bits including (but not limited to): Audio & Video Codecs, Flash Plugin, Crash Reporting, Metrics, et al.
- josteink 10y agoAnd not to mention: DRM. No thanks.
- DannyBee 10y ago"Crash Reporting, Metrics," These are not proprietary, actually. " Audio & Video Codecs," Neither is this, last i looked (but i haven't looked in a while).
- comex 10y agoThe "proprietary" codec support is open source but disabled by default in a Chromium build unless you pass proprietary_codecs=1. Why? Patents. AFAIK, Google pays for a license from the patent holders to decode the codecs within Chrome, but not an open-ended license for anyone using the source code. This is not their fault and no different from how many Linux distros don't include MP3 decoding by default. (Incidentally, the last MP3 patent is set to expire at the end of this year…)
- HappyTypist 10y agoThe last MP3 patent already expired a week ago actually.
- justinschuh 10y agoYup. Our only closed source bits at this point are Flash and the Widevine CDM (DRM), both of which can be disabled from: Settings -> Content Settings.
- partycoder 10y agoBetter than Edge that is fully closed source. You can use Chromium directly if you want to. Many important projects exist because Chromium and v8 are open source.
- repples 10y agoActually the JavaScript engine of Edge is open source.
- partycoder 10y agoChakra is open source. The rest is not. The IE/Edge layout engine has always been a source of infamous trickery. It would be good that they finally open source it.
- repples 10y agoAs Chakra is part of Edge, then Edge is not fully closed source.
- satysin 10y agoEdge is closed source. You have no way of verifying the build of Chakra used is the same as the open source version. Well it might be possible to reproduce a build of Chakra to do a binary comparison but i am not aware of anyone doing it.
- repples 10y agoThere's nothing stopping you from compiling https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore and checking if Chakra.dll matches that which is distributed with Edge.
- satysin 10y agoAFICT you cannot build a like-for-like chakra.dll from ChakraCore due to https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore#using-chakracore https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore#using-chakracore The chakra.dll that comes as part of Windows/Edge includes the additional parts not included with ChakraCore (at least that is how it reads to me).
- montibbalt 10y agoYour site may be self-selecting for people who don't use Edge somehow. Our session count on a site geared for the average person puts Edge closer to 13%: Chrome - 57.54% IE - 14.12% Edge - 12.88% Firefox - 9.30% Safari - 4.13% Other browsers make up the remainder
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- idobai 10y agoMaybe your site is visited from these "enterprise" computers where people are forced to use the default browser. Or you can assume the lack of tech knowledge about people who use IE/Edge by will.