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Microsoft Edge Beta for Linux
- solarkraft 5y agoNot gonna lie, I was shocked to find this out: It’s proprietary. History teaches us that trusting proprietary Microsoft products tends to be a bad idea. Other than that it’s a pretty okay browser. A bit better than Chrome because of its stacked tabs.
- MR4D 5y agoWhere does it say it’s proprietary? I looked (albeit while on my phone) and count find it. Is that on another site? The reason I ask is because I wonder if it’s truly proprietary or just fell under their early release license and someone missed something while prepping the release.
- solarkraft 5y agoNot just this release, all of Edge. I looked up the source code out of curiosity, found the Github repo (https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge) ... which contains an MIT License.txt for that repository and a Readme.md with hits such as „Our new mobile browser has been based on open source from its beginnings over a year ago“ and „While we’ve been consumers of Chromium open source“. I was pretty baffled and continue to be. Why the f** would they make it proprietary? It’s sad because Edge really is the nicest spin of Chrome I know, but I‘d have liked to use a version with some features removed.
- FastEatSlow 5y agoIt'd be interesting to see if edge on Linux tries special tricks to force itself on the user, though they'd definitely have less sucess with that. Maybe it'll rewrite my bash profile and desktop entries
- Iolaum 5y agoI have edge installed as a flatpak from flathub-beta and haven't seen any 'ads'. The sandbox capabilities of flatpak also help reduce potential attack surface.
- swiley 5y agoFlatpack will be the death of Linux's software ecosystem.
- selfhoster11 5y agoWhy?
- Spivak 5y agoFlatpak is a boon to Linux’s software ecosystem. It provides model of software delivery that makes sense for “pet apps” maintained directly by upstreams who want to make their software work across many distros and push updates outside the cadence of distro packaging.
- nyanpasu64 5y agoMaybe it'll rewrite your ~/.config/mimeapps.list.
- dTal 5y agoSerious question - why?
- anm89 5y agoBroswer compatibility testing
- jikbd 5y agoWhy not? I tried it and it seemed a good browser. I think it’s a good option for those who hate Google.
- hulitu 5y agoDoes it needs root to install ?
- kjaftaedi 5y agoSerious reply, why not? Why would you not want people to produce software for Linux? Pride? Too much respect for a long standing feud?
- dTal 5y agoWhat I mean is, why would Microsoft do this? If Edge is a nice piece of software that's in demand, why make it easier for people to run it on a rival OS? Conversely, if Edge is shovelware that directly benefits Microsoft in some way, why would anyone go out of their way to run it? Especially anyone who cares enough to go out of their way to install Linux? I'm just struggling to understand the target audience. Although, from some of the sibling comments, perhaps I've underestimated its popularity?
- NoThisIsMe 5y ago> Why would Microsoft do this? Probably because Google already did all the hard work -- it's a Chrome fork -- and it's good press in tech circles.
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- literallyaduck 5y agoDoes it make Amazon work at 4k?
- doubled112 5y agoOr better than 480p? Let's not get too carried away here.
- merb 5y agowell his comment was serious. most 4k content needs a widevine plugin that you can't get for windows. only widevine l3 that only supports full hd content.
- ahartmetz 5y agoNope, tested it last winter. Somehow, there was no way to watch in better than SD on Linux, even with the WideVine plugin in Firefox. It's okay, there are... other options. Very budget-friendly, too.
- Matthias247 5y ago> Make Amazon work I guess you mean showing prime video content in 4k, and not whether general amazon.com has issues working with this browser?
- Koshkin 5y agoPrivacy on Linux, invaded.