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One of the most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs is "we want our browser experience to move to our phones". That's
by dumbmatter 9y ago
One of the most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs is "we want our browser experience to move to our phones".
That's funny, my most common request is "IT'S BEEN LIKE 5 YEARS, CAN YOU GUYS FINALLY SUPPORT ALL OF THE INDEXEDDB API? EVEN SAFARI DOES IT NOW!"
So sad when poor multinational corporations simply don't have the resources to compete with obscenely wealthy organizations like Mozilla. Maybe they should try open sourcing their browser so the community can pitch in?
- MBCook 9y agoIt’s been two years. And I bet normal everyday users aren’t asking for that.
- lostcolony 9y agoYeah, but I'm willing to bet normal everyday users don't use terms like "browser experience" either. In fact, I'm pretty sure that anyone who understands the concept of different browsers (rather than referring to whatever standard browser they have as "the internet"), uses Edge primarily to download Chrome or Firefox.
- MBCook 9y agoI’ve used edge. It’s fine. If MS had lots of people complaining about sites that didn’t work or said ‘Edge not supported’ to people who went there and that was because the site needed IndexDB I’m sure they would have added it. It clearly isn’t a huge issue for them. I can see people saying ‘If I use Edge my phone doesn’t sync bookmarks and stuff like Chrome so I use Chrome.’ I don’t think saying things like ‘people only use it to download Chrome’ is helpful. It’s not IE 7. It’s a perfectly fine browser.
- lostcolony 9y agoYes, it was partially tongue in cheek. That said, most of those who understand there are multiple browsers likely do so due to a time when, yes, IE was -terrible-...and so all their saved stuff, preferred plugins, etc, are in Firefox or Chrome. So their first act on getting a new computer is to reinstall and sync that stuff. Not "give that new Microsoft browser a spin".
- DonHopkins 9y agoThere was actually a time in history when Internet Explorer was arguably the best browser on the Mac! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac
- ConceptJunkie 9y agoThere was a time when IE was arguably the best browser for Windows. Unfortunately, this time was about 20 years ago.
- abiox 9y agoit still lags behind in supporting various things. i had hoped edge would show a commitment to features and standards, but alas.
- MBCook 9y agoSuch as? I mean are they real problems or are they the bleeding edge stuff people are always mad Safari doesn’t have yet?
- frou_dh 9y agoAfter a Win10 user does that, they will have not one but two unused browsers lingering on their PC (both IE11 and Edge). I name this ship Bloaty McBloatface.
- dumbmatter 9y agoIt's been 2 (nearly 3) years since the final version of the official spec, but 5 years since any significant changes to the spec draft. IE10 was released in 2012 with a partial IndexedDB implementation, and Edge is still missing features that Chrome and Firefox had 5 years ago. And I was being facetious, I know I'm not a normal user. Some normal users would like to play a video game I wrote that won't run in Edge due to missing IndexedDB features, though.
- martinald 9y agoMozilla is obscenely wealthy as charities go. It must be one of the world's most asset-rich charity in the world. Billions of dollars...
- dumbmatter 9y agoYou are right about that. They even financially support other projects that are not as rich: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/ Anyone know someone working on Edge? Maybe MS can apply to that program and get some extra funding?
- revmoo 9y agoI'd settle for them just getting out of the browser business.
- ekianjo 9y ago> most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs Are there really people using Microsoft Edge out there? I mean, because they want to, not because they have to?
- eradicatethots 9y agoOn my pc its performance is great. I’d use it if it had more extensions.
- Gracana 9y agoMy Windows dev friends seem to like it. If you're into the Microsoft ecosystem, it seems reasonable. I tried it out as an alternative to IE 11 at work (where I run Windows to do CAD and industrial automation stuff), but I returned to IE out of habit. Either browser seems to work fine, though there are occasional issues with newly-designed sites and apps, I think because they tend to be designed and tested on Chrome/Mac.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoEdge's user agent I believe is specifically chosen to look like Chrome to most websites. I believe they have said they had a lot of issues modernizing IE because people's "detect IE" hacks would assume IE still needed those hacks, and it would in fact end up breaking the website when IE improved.
- tapoxi 9y agoEdge's user agent is almost a parody of how bad UA strings have become. Its basically claiming to be every major browser at once. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.
- exikyut 9y agoExcept Internet Explorer. http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php?name=Internet+Explorer http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php?nam... IE version 6: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.1) IE version 10: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0) IE versi--wait, what (?!): Mozilla/1.22 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows 3.1) That last one made me wonder if someone was trolling an auto-collection system or if a zero somehow got added by a Network™. Offtopic but had to add it.
- Tarean 9y agoI don't use it as my main browser but it starts basically instantly, is reasonably snappy and uses far less resources than either firefox or chrome. If you don't have your browser open all the time it seems like a reasonable alternative.