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The only reason to use Edge is because your corporate policy forces you to. There is no other reason whatsoever. If you must, use Chrome if you'd rather send a

by pluc 4y ago

The only reason to use Edge is because your corporate policy forces you to. There is no other reason whatsoever. If you must, use Chrome if you'd rather send all that data to an advertising company in exchange for a familiar UI. Otherwise, use Firefox.

skrebbel 4y ago
Edge has lots of great features and UX elements that set it apart. Eg proper vertical tab bar, profiles with great UX, “turn site into desktop app”, well-designed website translation, etc. Chrome has some of these and Firefox lets you piece it all together with lots of add-ons but it’s not the same. Firefox is my daily driver, but for a long time, before all these user-hostile misfeatures were added, Edge was Pretty Great As Well in my opinion.
- manderley 4y ago
  "Turn site into desktop app" is a Chrome feature, and has been for many years. Chrome calls it "Create shortcut - Open as window". Website translations and the profiles UI is very similar to Chrome as well.
- tripdout 4y ago
  The collections feature is really useful as well.
- password4321 4y ago
  Edge dev tools has "edit and resend" built in.
  - pluc 4y ago
    "Edge dev tools" are Chrome dev tools that were Firefox developer tools.
- soundnote 4y ago
  Brave has vertical tabs nowadays, though they're still behind a flag. But they've gotten pretty and stable enough that I don't miss Edge at all.
shp0ngle 4y ago
Vertical tabs
- LBJsPNS 4y ago
  ...are easily added to Firefox if desired.
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
  - shp0ngle 4y ago
    not really, it keeps the horizontal one, so it still takes space. Apparently Brave has it now though.
- soundnote 4y ago
  Are built in in Brave (still behind a flag, though, but already in perfectly usable shape)
fbdab103 4y ago
Not corporate policy, but something is borked with the internal SSO. Only about half of my internal sites work with Chrome. So, I am frequently relegated to working with Edge because the Microsoft admins prioritize streamlining all of the account stuff. Everything else is an unsupported workflow.
mshroyer 4y ago
I use it because it does better than Chrome or Firefox for my laptop's battery life. It's an unwanted hassle to stay on top of these new privacy settings though, and I wouldn't recommend Edge to a non-technical family matter for that reason.
Kwpolska 4y ago
I use Firefox as my primary browser, and Edge as the secondary browser for things that don’t like Firefox or for when Firefox does weird things. I don’t have Chrome installed on my PCs (both work and personal), because I don’t need it. Also, Microsoft is not primarily an advertising company. They make money by selling software to businesses, such as Windows Server, SQL Server, Microsoft Office (or Microsoft 365).
- soundnote 4y ago
  From 2020, "Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When They Phone Home?" https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf > We find that the browsers split into three distinct groups from this privacy perspective. In the first (most private) group lies Brave, in the second Chrome, Firefox and Safari and in the third (least private) group lie Edge and Yandex.
soundnote 4y ago
Why use Chrome when you could use something like Ungoogled Chromium if you don't need backend services, or Brave if you want an end to end encrypted independent sync backend?

by pluc 4y ago

skrebbel 4y ago

Edge has lots of great features and UX elements that set it apart. Eg proper vertical tab bar, profiles with great UX, “turn site into desktop app”, well-designed website translation, etc. Chrome has some of these and Firefox lets you piece it all together with lots of add-ons but it’s not the same. Firefox is my daily driver, but for a long time, before all these user-hostile misfeatures were added, Edge was Pretty Great As Well in my opinion.

manderley 4y ago
"Turn site into desktop app" is a Chrome feature, and has been for many years. Chrome calls it "Create shortcut - Open as window". Website translations and the profiles UI is very similar to Chrome as well.
tripdout 4y ago
The collections feature is really useful as well.
password4321 4y ago
Edge dev tools has "edit and resend" built in.
- pluc 4y ago
  "Edge dev tools" are Chrome dev tools that were Firefox developer tools.
soundnote 4y ago
Brave has vertical tabs nowadays, though they're still behind a flag. But they've gotten pretty and stable enough that I don't miss Edge at all.

shp0ngle 4y ago

Vertical tabs

LBJsPNS 4y ago
...are easily added to Firefox if desired.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
- shp0ngle 4y ago
  not really, it keeps the horizontal one, so it still takes space. Apparently Brave has it now though.
soundnote 4y ago
Are built in in Brave (still behind a flag, though, but already in perfectly usable shape)

fbdab103 4y ago

Not corporate policy, but something is borked with the internal SSO. Only about half of my internal sites work with Chrome. So, I am frequently relegated to working with Edge because the Microsoft admins prioritize streamlining all of the account stuff. Everything else is an unsupported workflow.

mshroyer 4y ago

I use it because it does better than Chrome or Firefox for my laptop's battery life. It's an unwanted hassle to stay on top of these new privacy settings though, and I wouldn't recommend Edge to a non-technical family matter for that reason.

Kwpolska 4y ago

I use Firefox as my primary browser, and Edge as the secondary browser for things that don’t like Firefox or for when Firefox does weird things. I don’t have Chrome installed on my PCs (both work and personal), because I don’t need it. Also, Microsoft is not primarily an advertising company. They make money by selling software to businesses, such as Windows Server, SQL Server, Microsoft Office (or Microsoft 365).

soundnote 4y ago
From 2020, "Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When They Phone Home?" https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf > We find that the browsers split into three distinct groups from this privacy perspective. In the first (most private) group lies Brave, in the second Chrome, Firefox and Safari and in the third (least private) group lie Edge and Yandex.

soundnote 4y ago

Why use Chrome when you could use something like Ungoogled Chromium if you don't need backend services, or Brave if you want an end to end encrypted independent sync backend?