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Edge's only practical purpose is to download Chrome or Firefox, and I hope it stays that way. MS made it very painful for website developers to support Interne
by partycoder 10y ago
Edge's only practical purpose is to download Chrome or Firefox, and I hope it stays that way.
MS made it very painful for website developers to support Internet Explorer, and having to support IE crippled the web for years.
Today there is not a single developer that likes Internet Explorer or its successor Edge. You will not see a single human being on planet Earth with an Edge t-shirt, and if you see one, it's probably that person's laundry day.
The e logo only brings memories of your computer freezing or getting millions of stupid popups or a browser window with hundreds of toolbars (when you used someone else's computer), and conversations asking people to try another browser, or having to switch my user-agent string or create a VM with the sole purpose of running an IE only website, or having to stay late at work because some user with IE experienced problems.
Plus, Microsoft is dishonest and used their browser to mine Google Search activity and send it to their servers to improve Bing. And god knows what else.
Microsoft is selfish, plays dirty and does not deserve a seat at the table of people deciding web standards. They can make Chakra 100x faster, make you a sandwich and jump through hoops but nobody trusts them anymore so it doesn't matter.
We all lived a decade under the tyranny of Internet Explorer and we had enough. If there is a product that deserves to go away, it's Microsoft's web browser. The day it does I am going to throw away a party, and I am sure many others will as well. Please give up, use your time on something else.