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My 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

My 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 ago
Edge'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 ago
  Edge'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 ago
    Except 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.