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> I use Microsoft Edge as my primary browser. Sure, other browsers are available, but this is the one I use. Yes, but why? If it is the app that crashes the mo

> I use Microsoft Edge as my primary browser. Sure, other browsers are available, but this is the one I use. Yes, but why? If it is the app that crashes the most, maybe switch to a browser that is better supported for your os. I will not get into, why one uses Microsoft Edge on Linux lol.

PennRobotics 3y ago
I was moments away from RMA'ing the Z13 and wanted evidence of the many hardware and software shortcomings. Thus, I have a video recording of Firefox repeatably (and repeatedly) hanging and glitching (e.g. in the video, becoming totally unresponsive unless you switch to another graphical VT and log on; other times, needing to open a new firefox instance to continue working in the current instance) and another video of the Firefox context menu constantly flickering in Fedora. Firefox still---after years in the bug tracker---does not attempt to offer HDR support on Linux or Windows. Edge's HDR implementation might be buggy but it exists. (The Z13 OLED has an HDR calibration available.) Chromium seemed to always have codec issues when I was using it. (not a hypochondriac, there are countless threads online with the same complaint) So... It's either Firefox (poorly supported on this platform), something Chrome-based, or something simply poorly supported like the GNOME browser. (Aside, "Web" is possible THE worst name for an application.)
popey 3y ago
Good question. I have previously used Firefox, Chrome and Chromium. I make heavy use of multiple profiles in the browser. Firefox has never been very good at managing and profiles in the browser. With all the Chrom{e|ium} based browsers, it's a click away. Firefox also doesn't do webapps (at all?). I like to have a bunch of web "Apps" which I put on my launcher for easy access. I like being able to alt-tab between websites, rather than switch to a browser than have to switch tabs. I've had multiple occasions where Chrome and Chromium have completely eaten my profile losing all pinned tabs, cookies, extensions and any session information. With Firefox it's broken in weird ways for me. Most recently it would just load white blank pages for every tab I had open. I've also had poor performance from Firefox and Chrome, in terms of eating RAM and CPU inexplicably, constantly. Having tried Firefox and Chrome extensively, and had bad experiences, I thought I'd give Edge a try. Edge has the same easy profile management of Chrome. It has never died and eaten the session, nor decided to render all my tabs in white. Edge also has vertical tabs built in, which I use. It also has an effective tab sleep tool which means idle tabs aren't eating resources.
- jmholla 3y ago
  > I like being able to alt-tab between websites, rather than switch to a browser than have to switch tabs. You can open them in separate windows then alt-tab to them.
  - popey 3y ago
    Still not as pleasant has having a little icon for each webapp showing up my alt-tab list, and an icon in my launcher I can click on.
MonaroVXR 3y ago
Me using Edge on Linux, browser profile syncs faster and better. Effiency mode and tab suspense. But I'm actually using both Chrome and Edge simultaneously. To be honest I'm already switching back to for Firefox.

PennRobotics 3y ago

I was moments away from RMA'ing the Z13 and wanted evidence of the many hardware and software shortcomings. Thus, I have a video recording of Firefox repeatably (and repeatedly) hanging and glitching (e.g. in the video, becoming totally unresponsive unless you switch to another graphical VT and log on; other times, needing to open a new firefox instance to continue working in the current instance) and another video of the Firefox context menu constantly flickering in Fedora. Firefox still---after years in the bug tracker---does not attempt to offer HDR support on Linux or Windows. Edge's HDR implementation might be buggy but it exists. (The Z13 OLED has an HDR calibration available.) Chromium seemed to always have codec issues when I was using it. (not a hypochondriac, there are countless threads online with the same complaint) So... It's either Firefox (poorly supported on this platform), something Chrome-based, or something simply poorly supported like the GNOME browser. (Aside, "Web" is possible THE worst name for an application.)

popey 3y ago

Good question. I have previously used Firefox, Chrome and Chromium. I make heavy use of multiple profiles in the browser. Firefox has never been very good at managing and profiles in the browser. With all the Chrom{e|ium} based browsers, it's a click away. Firefox also doesn't do webapps (at all?). I like to have a bunch of web "Apps" which I put on my launcher for easy access. I like being able to alt-tab between websites, rather than switch to a browser than have to switch tabs. I've had multiple occasions where Chrome and Chromium have completely eaten my profile losing all pinned tabs, cookies, extensions and any session information. With Firefox it's broken in weird ways for me. Most recently it would just load white blank pages for every tab I had open. I've also had poor performance from Firefox and Chrome, in terms of eating RAM and CPU inexplicably, constantly. Having tried Firefox and Chrome extensively, and had bad experiences, I thought I'd give Edge a try. Edge has the same easy profile management of Chrome. It has never died and eaten the session, nor decided to render all my tabs in white. Edge also has vertical tabs built in, which I use. It also has an effective tab sleep tool which means idle tabs aren't eating resources.

jmholla 3y ago
> I like being able to alt-tab between websites, rather than switch to a browser than have to switch tabs. You can open them in separate windows then alt-tab to them.
- popey 3y ago
  Still not as pleasant has having a little icon for each webapp showing up my alt-tab list, and an icon in my launcher I can click on.

MonaroVXR 3y ago

Me using Edge on Linux, browser profile syncs faster and better. Effiency mode and tab suspense. But I'm actually using both Chrome and Edge simultaneously. To be honest I'm already switching back to for Firefox.