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Would have been nice if MS went for Gecko, would solve a lot of these concerns. I was just starting to get that butterfly/stomach feeling for Edge, I don't thi

Would have been nice if MS went for Gecko, would solve a lot of these concerns. I was just starting to get that butterfly/stomach feeling for Edge, I don't think I'd ever leave FF for it but Edge was pretty attractive and I started to developed some warm fuzzy feelings for it. My initial revulsion has long since been replaced by a sort of curiosity which had the potential to grow into even more... That chromium news killed it though.

mrec 8y ago
I don't think I ever tried Edge - what advantages did it have?
- teekert 8y ago
  Starts fast, minimal UI, low battery usage, good built in pdf reader, fancy visual tabs (pull tabbar down, see miniature pages), set tabs aside feature is nice. But mainly it just feels very fast. This probably won't change with when they start to base on blink but that leaves the issues discussed here.
  - tyingq 8y ago
    The sandbox in Edge also seemed well thought out: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/03/23/strengthening-microsoft-edge-sandbox/ https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/03/23/strengthening...
- vbezhenar 8y ago
  I used it few months and it mostly worked just fine. I had few crashes but those were rare. The main drawback was that their developer console was somewhat buggy, so eventually I switched back to Chrome because I needed it. Also 1Password extension for Edge was buggy as well. And, oh my god, how many times Google asked me to install Chrome. They are really annoying with those ads which never stop to appear. I suppose that for many users that might be the reason to switch to Chrome, to stop that insanity.
  - Ntrails 8y ago
    > And, oh my god, how many times Google asked me to install Chrome. Interesting - I've never seen that in FireFox
  - bluGill 8y ago
    Microsoft should have put an anti-trust lawsuit on google for that. Google has enough of a monopoly that asking users to install chrome qualifies as abuse.
    - YetAnotherNick 8y ago
      I opened microsoft site and it only showed me microsoft affiliated products. I think an anti trust lawsuit should be filed for that.
      - tyingq 8y ago
        That is sort of equating a business with the road that leads to it.

mrec 8y ago

I don't think I ever tried Edge - what advantages did it have?

teekert 8y ago
Starts fast, minimal UI, low battery usage, good built in pdf reader, fancy visual tabs (pull tabbar down, see miniature pages), set tabs aside feature is nice. But mainly it just feels very fast. This probably won't change with when they start to base on blink but that leaves the issues discussed here.
- tyingq 8y ago
  The sandbox in Edge also seemed well thought out: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/03/23/strengthening-microsoft-edge-sandbox/ https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/03/23/strengthening...
vbezhenar 8y ago
I used it few months and it mostly worked just fine. I had few crashes but those were rare. The main drawback was that their developer console was somewhat buggy, so eventually I switched back to Chrome because I needed it. Also 1Password extension for Edge was buggy as well. And, oh my god, how many times Google asked me to install Chrome. They are really annoying with those ads which never stop to appear. I suppose that for many users that might be the reason to switch to Chrome, to stop that insanity.
- Ntrails 8y ago
  > And, oh my god, how many times Google asked me to install Chrome. Interesting - I've never seen that in FireFox
- bluGill 8y ago
  Microsoft should have put an anti-trust lawsuit on google for that. Google has enough of a monopoly that asking users to install chrome qualifies as abuse.
  - YetAnotherNick 8y ago
    I opened microsoft site and it only showed me microsoft affiliated products. I think an anti trust lawsuit should be filed for that.
    - tyingq 8y ago
      That is sort of equating a business with the road that leads to it.