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Sometimes I start edge when something does not work in firefox. Everyone knows you want your browser to be quick, snappy and use few resources. What does Edge
by SCHiM 3y ago
Sometimes I start edge when something does not work in firefox. Everyone knows you want your browser to be quick, snappy and use few resources.
What does Edge do? It shows you a unskippable, un-closable "how-to" (as if I've never used a browser), and a make-an-account-and-sync nag. It takes a minute to click though, what a turn off!
It hasn't popped up for me in a while, but it definitively happens sometimes.
- siriusfeynman 3y agoInterestingly I've had the same experience with firefox, I keep it installed as a fallback if something isn't working in chrome but every time I (infrequently) use it I have to dismiss several popups about new features and how to switch to it as my primary browser/import history etc.
- FullyFunctional 3y agoThis resonates so hard. I really wish that SW stop assuming that if they are just installed, then the user is a complete ignoramus who needs to be educated and onboarded. I (for reasons) frequently install OSes from scratch and all the boilerplate is so tedious.
- SCHiM 3y agoI think I saw this too with firefox. My memory is a little hazy on this detail, but the _critical_ difference with firefox is that ctrl+t let me open a new tab and leave the sync-a-nag alone. Edge did not allow that, and I actually hat to wait while it was "Working on it".
- trefoiled 3y agoeven worse, Mozilla has begun using startup as an opportunity to deliver VPN advertisements.
- toast0 3y agoWell, this is coming from the people who brought you the old Edge; the first browser with a input queue, so that the stop button waits until the browser engine is ready to stop it; and then all of your many other button presses play out after that. Edge as a Chrome reskin is better than that at least. But then again, so was IE.