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> no dependencies and prioritised performance above anything Edge was in a weird position where it somehow looked fast but felt sluggish. A real shame it didn'
by cameronbrown 7y ago
> no dependencies and prioritised performance above anything
Edge was in a weird position where it somehow looked fast but felt sluggish. A real shame it didn't work out though.
- zsrxx 7y agoIt felt sluggish because they were forced to use the Metro UI toolkit. Had they used Win32, it would have blown Firefox and maybe Chrome out of the water.
- vezycash 7y agoIt was sluggish and hung for no reason. It was super bare boned and still slow. So, if I installed the same number of extensions as I have on Firefox, it would grind to a halt. I guess that's what we get when they prioritize looks or design over functionality. The most annoying part for me was updates. They supposedly created Edge as a browser decoupled from the OS unlike Internet Explorer. They claimed that with Edge, they would be able to iterate quickly with regular updates - like Chrome. Yet, for 4 years, updating edge required a major OS update AFAIK.