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Serious question - is there a legitimate use case for Edge when a Chrome Stable build is available?

by mkl95 4y ago

mrweasel 4y ago
I'm thinking Microsoft is hoping for the reverse: Why download Chrome when you have a perfectly good Blink based browser already installed.
jabroni_salad 4y ago
From a business perspective, IE mode and onedrive userstate sync for o365 customers From a personal perspective, goog and microsoft are basically equivalent and I don't want either of their browsers.
vladvasiliu 4y ago
It's already installed and it works well enough. Plus, if I'm using Windows, I'm already sending a bunch of telemetry to MS, so I don't see a reason to go out of my way to send some to goog, too. Also, I'm not a Netflix customer, but I understand that on PC you need Edge to get high-definition (>=1080p) video. Chrome doesn't work (neither does it work on Mac). So the question becomes: is there a legimate use case for Chrome when Edge is available (and is mostly the same thing)? I, personally, am quite against using a Google browser (or derivative), but for my gaming PC where I only launch the browser once in a blue moon, I just can't be bothered to download anything else since Edge works. On my work PC I use Firefox, and am quite happy with it.
wintermutestwin 4y ago
Edge is the only Chromium-based browser that allows for Vertical Tabs.
- netsharc 4y ago
  Vivaldi has it, and it's a Chromium-based browser made by people who left Opera after it was sold to the Chinese. Opera had vertical tabs even a decade or so ago, back when it was still using its own Presto engine (they switched to Chromium and seems to have lost this feature).
  - wintermutestwin 4y ago
    Thanks for that. Unfortunately, it looks like Vivaldi is closed source. Do you know how it is monetized?
    - rejectfinite 4y ago
      Search engines, bookmarks and they offer email services. https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/ https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/
radicaldreamer 4y ago
There are significant changes in Edge compared to Chrome stable and perf and efficiency improvements on Windows (not to mention deeper system integration).

Serious question - is there a legitimate use case for Edge when a Chrome Stable build is available?

by mkl95 4y ago

Serious question - is there a legitimate use case for Edge when a Chrome Stable build is available?

I'm thinking Microsoft is hoping for the reverse: Why download Chrome when you have a perfectly good Blink based browser already installed.

jabroni_salad 4y ago

From a business perspective, IE mode and onedrive userstate sync for o365 customers From a personal perspective, goog and microsoft are basically equivalent and I don't want either of their browsers.

vladvasiliu 4y ago

It's already installed and it works well enough. Plus, if I'm using Windows, I'm already sending a bunch of telemetry to MS, so I don't see a reason to go out of my way to send some to goog, too. Also, I'm not a Netflix customer, but I understand that on PC you need Edge to get high-definition (>=1080p) video. Chrome doesn't work (neither does it work on Mac). So the question becomes: is there a legimate use case for Chrome when Edge is available (and is mostly the same thing)? I, personally, am quite against using a Google browser (or derivative), but for my gaming PC where I only launch the browser once in a blue moon, I just can't be bothered to download anything else since Edge works. On my work PC I use Firefox, and am quite happy with it.

wintermutestwin 4y ago

Edge is the only Chromium-based browser that allows for Vertical Tabs.

netsharc 4y ago
Vivaldi has it, and it's a Chromium-based browser made by people who left Opera after it was sold to the Chinese. Opera had vertical tabs even a decade or so ago, back when it was still using its own Presto engine (they switched to Chromium and seems to have lost this feature).
- wintermutestwin 4y ago
  Thanks for that. Unfortunately, it looks like Vivaldi is closed source. Do you know how it is monetized?
  - rejectfinite 4y ago
    Search engines, bookmarks and they offer email services. https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/ https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

radicaldreamer 4y ago

There are significant changes in Edge compared to Chrome stable and perf and efficiency improvements on Windows (not to mention deeper system integration).