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I find Edge is a nice alternative

b112 4y ago
I tried Edge on mobile. Before, I had thought chrome, and to a lesser extend firefox, phoned home a lot. But oh boy, does edge on android phone home. You'd think a phone home party was going on, as the tcpdump flies off your screen... No thanks.
SaulJLH 4y ago
Edge is better than Chrome, & better than FF in many respects, too. Don't let the "M$ teh hacking my dataz!" tin-foilers dissuade... Performant, good mix of features, stable, solid compatibility, & flexible.
- formerly_proven 4y ago
  Something Edge has going for it is that it's the only browser on Windows where hardware acceleration seems to consistently work.
  - juki 4y ago
    I haven't really tried using Edge for general use, but I do use it whenever I want text-to-speech. That's a lot better in Edge than other options I've tried.
  - croes 4y ago
    The browser of the OS producer works best with the OS, honi soit qui mal y pense
- boudin 4y ago
  I wouldn't touch Edge because I still remember the days when IE was dominating the market. As much as I despise Google being the one now, I do not miss those days and do not trust Microsoft to do anything good if they were in this position again. So you can make fun of people concerned about privacy, but history proved there's a lot more concerns to have regarding Microsoft
  - SaulJLH 4y ago
    I remember those times too, completely different group of management, and the way they've done business in the last near decade, has also been very different. Some throwbacks, but on the whole, vastly different. I've been watching, you clearly haven't. And aside from that, they're never going to be in the "same position", the market is entirety different.
    - boudin 4y ago
      I can see you've been watching their marketing indeed... Now I've seen Windows 10 and Windows 11, it doesn't really depict a different Microsoft.
- throwaway0x7E6 4y ago
  you're absolutely right, it's great for an average consumer who doesn't care about privacy
  - SaulJLH 4y ago
    Mainly great for users who are way more technically literate than the avg. hand-wavey user.
egberts1 4y ago
Whoa. If you have low memory (like 2GB or 4) in your PC, then Edge is not your friend. Problem is Electron as the backend for Edge.
- SaulJLH 4y ago
  That is completely wrong, "electron as the back-end", LOL WTF.
  - egberts1 4y ago
    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/electron-chromium-edge-anaheim-and-windows-10-amp-7/m-p/677680 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/electron-...
    - SaulJLH 4y ago
      And? Electron can use chrome or edge components, the latter aren't based on electron, it is based (in part) on them.
npteljes 4y ago
It's a different skin on Chromium. So it's an alternative in some regards, and not in others.

b112 4y ago

I tried Edge on mobile. Before, I had thought chrome, and to a lesser extend firefox, phoned home a lot. But oh boy, does edge on android phone home. You'd think a phone home party was going on, as the tcpdump flies off your screen... No thanks.

SaulJLH 4y ago

Edge is better than Chrome, & better than FF in many respects, too. Don't let the "M$ teh hacking my dataz!" tin-foilers dissuade... Performant, good mix of features, stable, solid compatibility, & flexible.

formerly_proven 4y ago
Something Edge has going for it is that it's the only browser on Windows where hardware acceleration seems to consistently work.
- juki 4y ago
  I haven't really tried using Edge for general use, but I do use it whenever I want text-to-speech. That's a lot better in Edge than other options I've tried.
- croes 4y ago
  The browser of the OS producer works best with the OS, honi soit qui mal y pense
boudin 4y ago
I wouldn't touch Edge because I still remember the days when IE was dominating the market. As much as I despise Google being the one now, I do not miss those days and do not trust Microsoft to do anything good if they were in this position again. So you can make fun of people concerned about privacy, but history proved there's a lot more concerns to have regarding Microsoft
- SaulJLH 4y ago
  I remember those times too, completely different group of management, and the way they've done business in the last near decade, has also been very different. Some throwbacks, but on the whole, vastly different. I've been watching, you clearly haven't. And aside from that, they're never going to be in the "same position", the market is entirety different.
  - boudin 4y ago
    I can see you've been watching their marketing indeed... Now I've seen Windows 10 and Windows 11, it doesn't really depict a different Microsoft.
throwaway0x7E6 4y ago
you're absolutely right, it's great for an average consumer who doesn't care about privacy
- SaulJLH 4y ago
  Mainly great for users who are way more technically literate than the avg. hand-wavey user.

egberts1 4y ago

Whoa. If you have low memory (like 2GB or 4) in your PC, then Edge is not your friend. Problem is Electron as the backend for Edge.

SaulJLH 4y ago
That is completely wrong, "electron as the back-end", LOL WTF.
- egberts1 4y ago
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/electron-chromium-edge-anaheim-and-windows-10-amp-7/m-p/677680 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/electron-...
  - SaulJLH 4y ago
    And? Electron can use chrome or edge components, the latter aren't based on electron, it is based (in part) on them.

npteljes 4y ago

It's a different skin on Chromium. So it's an alternative in some regards, and not in others.