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How has Microsoft torpedoed Edge?

by tored 5y ago

ChuckNorris89 5y ago
I don't know, without any details from him, I suspect parent is just trying to be edgy based on FUD he read online. On my Win 11 laptop, Edge still gives me the best battery life to performance ratio vs chrome and Mozilla by a decent margin. I don't get the Edge hate. I do hate Window 11 though.
- mardifoufs 5y ago
  Edge literally offers you loans when you are checking out on a website. How is that FUD or edginess? Sure, it can be better for battery life, but they still took a "clean slate" browser that started having a pretty good reputation after the chromium switch and began slowly filling it with cheap adware. Plus, it's one of the browsers that has the most telemetry to the point where it sometimes can phone back everything you type to MS IIRC. So It's not "hate", they just don't like it for several good reasons
  - ChuckNorris89 5y ago
    >Edge literally offers you loans when you are checking out on a website. That literally never happened to me. Maybe because I'm in Europe.
- hbn 5y ago
  I had switched to Edge for a year or two but was eventually pushed back to Chrome a few months ago because I got sick of how often they were shoving services I don't want to use in my face. Plus it seems to have some kind of quality control issue. Pretty glaring bugs were making their way into the stable channel, and they wouldn't be fixed for far too long. There was a several week span (maybe even months?) where in Edge for Windows, clicking and dragging the scrollbar would make the scrollbar disappear and the entire web page would jut to the side. I don't recall ever having issues like that in Chrome, let alone as often as they happened on Edge. And another minor niggling is the awkward update process on macOS. Chrome can just install updates in the background, then I click a button to restart the browser and the update is done. With Edge you have to do updates through their janky Microsoft updater application which you don't even install manually and can't seem to launch manually. It just appears when it wants to and then disappears again until the next time it decides to appear.
sofixa 5y ago
Yep - there's shit like loan ads added to e-commerce web pages.
- tored 5y ago
  I was unaware about this feature. I have not seen it myself. Seems like a bizarre feature. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/introducing-buy-now-pay-later-in-microsoft-edge/m-p/2967030 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/introducing-... https://youtu.be/h34Oh8CEnqA https://youtu.be/h34Oh8CEnqA

How has Microsoft torpedoed Edge?

by tored 5y ago

How has Microsoft torpedoed Edge?

I don't know, without any details from him, I suspect parent is just trying to be edgy based on FUD he read online. On my Win 11 laptop, Edge still gives me the best battery life to performance ratio vs chrome and Mozilla by a decent margin. I don't get the Edge hate. I do hate Window 11 though.

mardifoufs 5y ago
Edge literally offers you loans when you are checking out on a website. How is that FUD or edginess? Sure, it can be better for battery life, but they still took a "clean slate" browser that started having a pretty good reputation after the chromium switch and began slowly filling it with cheap adware. Plus, it's one of the browsers that has the most telemetry to the point where it sometimes can phone back everything you type to MS IIRC. So It's not "hate", they just don't like it for several good reasons
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago
  >Edge literally offers you loans when you are checking out on a website. That literally never happened to me. Maybe because I'm in Europe.
hbn 5y ago
I had switched to Edge for a year or two but was eventually pushed back to Chrome a few months ago because I got sick of how often they were shoving services I don't want to use in my face. Plus it seems to have some kind of quality control issue. Pretty glaring bugs were making their way into the stable channel, and they wouldn't be fixed for far too long. There was a several week span (maybe even months?) where in Edge for Windows, clicking and dragging the scrollbar would make the scrollbar disappear and the entire web page would jut to the side. I don't recall ever having issues like that in Chrome, let alone as often as they happened on Edge. And another minor niggling is the awkward update process on macOS. Chrome can just install updates in the background, then I click a button to restart the browser and the update is done. With Edge you have to do updates through their janky Microsoft updater application which you don't even install manually and can't seem to launch manually. It just appears when it wants to and then disappears again until the next time it decides to appear.

sofixa 5y ago

Yep - there's shit like loan ads added to e-commerce web pages.

tored 5y ago
I was unaware about this feature. I have not seen it myself. Seems like a bizarre feature. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/introducing-buy-now-pay-later-in-microsoft-edge/m-p/2967030 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/introducing-... https://youtu.be/h34Oh8CEnqA https://youtu.be/h34Oh8CEnqA