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It's nice that they're investing in this. I just wish Edge didn't suck. I have tried using it as my primary browser and it's just not there. It crashes, trying

by cwyers 10y ago

It's nice that they're investing in this. I just wish Edge didn't suck. I have tried using it as my primary browser and it's just not there. It crashes, trying to move tabs around is a pain, sometimes it just isn't performant.

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egeozcan 10y ago
It opens web pages very fast, there's that. But, alas, everything else just feels sluggish. In my crazy high-end system, it takes a second for the menu to show up after right clicking the address bar. What I want is IE's rendering speed with Chrome's UI and Firefox's extensibility (the good old system, not the new one).
- cwyers 10y ago
  Yeah, the rendering engine is pretty good (although you can still sometimes hit corner cases where it doesn't work very well). Honestly, I think a lot of the problem isn't Edge, it's the whole Universal Windows Platform. It just feels like it's not fully cooked yet for apps that are as sophisticated as a modern web browser.
  - nxc18 10y ago
    It's not fully cooked in general. Try killing explorer.exe and resizing a UWP app; Something that should have nothing to do with app windows is fiddling with app frames. General nonsense in how the UWP system works is responsible for a lot of lagginess and the generally immature feel of the system. I would love to love Edge, but it really is crippled by the artifacts of its UWP implementation.
- wolf550e 10y ago
  Chrome's extension model is required for security, that's why firefox and edge adopted it and abandoned their old extension/plugin models.
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- roryisok 10y ago
  > What I want is IE's rendering speed with Chrome's UI and Firefox's extensibility (the good old system, not the new one). I'll also take Opera's built in vpn, iridium's privacy measures, vivaldi's dev tools, and blisk's mobile preview feature.
ryuuchin 10y ago
One of my biggest gripes is not being able to use extensions in private/incognito mode.
fetbaffe 10y ago
When Edge was released, it was quite awful. GUI itself didn't work properly when resizing etc. However the last few releases is has become usable. One interesting thing is that Edge feels more sluggish compared to other browsers on a fast system, but performs well on a slow system compared to other browsers. One huge annoyance with Edge is that it's spelling tool follows the OS language, hard to switch between languages. It is also not that good to give suggestions on mispelled words. I use it on a slow netbook only because Opera has introduced a memory leak in the last few releases. Unfortunately the browser experience is constantly degrading cross browsers, in lockstep with bloated single page apps.
sixothree 10y ago
Press Ctl-T and start typing an address. Whoops! We only saw you type the last half of that address.... I hate this so much. Same goes for the file menu in Windows Explorer.

by cwyers 10y ago

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egeozcan 10y ago

It opens web pages very fast, there's that. But, alas, everything else just feels sluggish. In my crazy high-end system, it takes a second for the menu to show up after right clicking the address bar. What I want is IE's rendering speed with Chrome's UI and Firefox's extensibility (the good old system, not the new one).

cwyers 10y ago
Yeah, the rendering engine is pretty good (although you can still sometimes hit corner cases where it doesn't work very well). Honestly, I think a lot of the problem isn't Edge, it's the whole Universal Windows Platform. It just feels like it's not fully cooked yet for apps that are as sophisticated as a modern web browser.
- nxc18 10y ago
  It's not fully cooked in general. Try killing explorer.exe and resizing a UWP app; Something that should have nothing to do with app windows is fiddling with app frames. General nonsense in how the UWP system works is responsible for a lot of lagginess and the generally immature feel of the system. I would love to love Edge, but it really is crippled by the artifacts of its UWP implementation.
wolf550e 10y ago
Chrome's extension model is required for security, that's why firefox and edge adopted it and abandoned their old extension/plugin models.
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roryisok 10y ago
> What I want is IE's rendering speed with Chrome's UI and Firefox's extensibility (the good old system, not the new one). I'll also take Opera's built in vpn, iridium's privacy measures, vivaldi's dev tools, and blisk's mobile preview feature.

ryuuchin 10y ago

One of my biggest gripes is not being able to use extensions in private/incognito mode.

fetbaffe 10y ago

When Edge was released, it was quite awful. GUI itself didn't work properly when resizing etc. However the last few releases is has become usable. One interesting thing is that Edge feels more sluggish compared to other browsers on a fast system, but performs well on a slow system compared to other browsers. One huge annoyance with Edge is that it's spelling tool follows the OS language, hard to switch between languages. It is also not that good to give suggestions on mispelled words. I use it on a slow netbook only because Opera has introduced a memory leak in the last few releases. Unfortunately the browser experience is constantly degrading cross browsers, in lockstep with bloated single page apps.

sixothree 10y ago

Press Ctl-T and start typing an address. Whoops! We only saw you type the last half of that address.... I hate this so much. Same goes for the file menu in Windows Explorer.