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I haven't used Edge in a while and opened it the other day. I'm absolutely shocked at the amount of garbage that's in there. Open up the hamburger menu, you'll

by tapoxi 4y ago

I haven't used Edge in a while and opened it the other day. I'm absolutely shocked at the amount of garbage that's in there. Open up the hamburger menu, you'll see games, shopping comparisons, etc. It feels like 90s adware. I'm not surprised they're turning PDF reading into a paid advertisement for Acrobat.

supernes 4y ago
The first (and last) time I tried it, I got a mile long GDPR consent form for the New Tab page. The entirety of the product is an ad delivery platform.
- permo-w 4y ago
  my laptop has an extremely condescending “help” button that opens up Edge when you inevitably accidentally click it. usually I delete the Edge executable to prevent this, but every few updates they put it back and I have to delete it again. it’s horrendous
r2222 4y ago
Yeah I hadn’t used a Windows machine for a year or so, and fired up Edge Dev just recently. The amount of adbloatware is truly baffling, it’s almost incredible. Afaik Windows doesn’t ship with a default PDF viewer other than Edge’s, so they probably made a pretty sweet deal with Adobe to let them in to upsell their subscription.
oefrha 4y ago
They also try extremely hard to make you (accidentally) set your default browser to Edge. I occasionally test my web sites/extensions on Edge and I don’t remember how many times I’ve told it no. While other browsers ask you whether you want to set them as default, Edge asks you whether you want to use “Microsoft-recommended settings” (paraphrased), stating their true intention only in small print. Also saw something new recently: got some “tips” in some sort of in-browser notification drawer, again asking to be set as default. Apparently denying synchronous dialogs as you open the browser aren’t enough, you should get nagged asynchronously as well. Of course, when you check out their recent Bing Chat, you’ll be asked to set the entire Microsoft suite as default, plus installing their mobile apps, so that you can be bumped up in a completely opaque waiting list.
- cosmotic 4y ago
  As someone that uses Edge by default, I see Google doing the same thing with Chrome. Various Google properties complain I'm not using Chrome. When I open chrome, it asks about being default... I never see Edge interfering. I switched to Edge and Bing a few years ago and don't at all regret it. Switching was painless, the browser uses much less CPU on windows, it syncs across all devices including mac, all the chrome extensions still work, and search results on bing are better than google in my testing.
TMWNN 4y ago
>I haven't used Edge in a while and opened it the other day. I'm absolutely shocked at the amount of garbage that's in there. I switched to Edge on Mac from Chrome this week for one reason and one reason only: In full screen, Edge properly displays the addressbar when the cursor is moved to the top of the screen, while Chrome still cannot do this. (No, I do not want to enable "Always Show Toolar in Full Screen".) My understanding is that this is a very, very, very longstanding entry in Chrome's bugzilla. The transition was easy; Edge even handled extensions correctly, pulling extensions from the Edge store when possible (except when versions differ, which I noticed in two cases) and from the Chrome store for the rest. Even extension settings came over. The only flaw I saw was that Edge only imported tabs from one Chrome window; I had to bookmark all tabs in each window, reimport bookmarks into Edge, then reopen each set of bookmarks into its own window.

by tapoxi 4y ago

supernes 4y ago

The first (and last) time I tried it, I got a mile long GDPR consent form for the New Tab page. The entirety of the product is an ad delivery platform.

permo-w 4y ago
my laptop has an extremely condescending “help” button that opens up Edge when you inevitably accidentally click it. usually I delete the Edge executable to prevent this, but every few updates they put it back and I have to delete it again. it’s horrendous

r2222 4y ago

Yeah I hadn’t used a Windows machine for a year or so, and fired up Edge Dev just recently. The amount of adbloatware is truly baffling, it’s almost incredible. Afaik Windows doesn’t ship with a default PDF viewer other than Edge’s, so they probably made a pretty sweet deal with Adobe to let them in to upsell their subscription.

oefrha 4y ago

They also try extremely hard to make you (accidentally) set your default browser to Edge. I occasionally test my web sites/extensions on Edge and I don’t remember how many times I’ve told it no. While other browsers ask you whether you want to set them as default, Edge asks you whether you want to use “Microsoft-recommended settings” (paraphrased), stating their true intention only in small print. Also saw something new recently: got some “tips” in some sort of in-browser notification drawer, again asking to be set as default. Apparently denying synchronous dialogs as you open the browser aren’t enough, you should get nagged asynchronously as well. Of course, when you check out their recent Bing Chat, you’ll be asked to set the entire Microsoft suite as default, plus installing their mobile apps, so that you can be bumped up in a completely opaque waiting list.

cosmotic 4y ago
As someone that uses Edge by default, I see Google doing the same thing with Chrome. Various Google properties complain I'm not using Chrome. When I open chrome, it asks about being default... I never see Edge interfering. I switched to Edge and Bing a few years ago and don't at all regret it. Switching was painless, the browser uses much less CPU on windows, it syncs across all devices including mac, all the chrome extensions still work, and search results on bing are better than google in my testing.

TMWNN 4y ago

>I haven't used Edge in a while and opened it the other day. I'm absolutely shocked at the amount of garbage that's in there. I switched to Edge on Mac from Chrome this week for one reason and one reason only: In full screen, Edge properly displays the addressbar when the cursor is moved to the top of the screen, while Chrome still cannot do this. (No, I do not want to enable "Always Show Toolar in Full Screen".) My understanding is that this is a very, very, very longstanding entry in Chrome's bugzilla. The transition was easy; Edge even handled extensions correctly, pulling extensions from the Edge store when possible (except when versions differ, which I noticed in two cases) and from the Chrome store for the rest. Even extension settings came over. The only flaw I saw was that Edge only imported tabs from one Chrome window; I had to bookmark all tabs in each window, reimport bookmarks into Edge, then reopen each set of bookmarks into its own window.