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Not 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
by solarkraft 5y ago
Not 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.