Microsoft Edge Now 2nd Most Popular Web-Browser

EarthDog · Apr 6, 2020

ARF said:
What lol Chrome always crashes in Facebook and its scrolling experience is laggy and terrible as hell.

Not for me.

Move along, Alf. I dont want to debate this with you. It's a preference, plain and simple.

Ravenas · Apr 6, 2020

My question is, how does this ultimately benefit Google?

R0H1T · Apr 6, 2020

It doesn't, Bing & by extension MS is the biggest beneficiary in this!

tfdsaf · Apr 6, 2020

Edge is basically Chrome with a new skin and a bit tweaked, it does give me some graphical issues, so I'm not using it. I like Firefox most though as its better for privacy and more secure.

Ravenas · Apr 6, 2020

R0H1T said:
It doesn't, Bing & by extension MS is the biggest beneficiary in this!

Google is benefiting from this probably by mainstreaming the source code for overall internet likeness to enable better advertising. Don't think Google would just loan out their source code as open source, without some intent behind doing so.

Frick · Apr 6, 2020

JAB Creations said:
Chrome monopoly works by herd mentality. If you can't think for yourself then you're part of the problem.

I don't even know what this means. MS base their business decisions on not thinking?

Easo · Apr 6, 2020

Vayra86 said:
Edge is good. But it lacks plugins and the effectiveness of its private browsing features leaves much to be desired.

Firefox on the other hand also has its bugs, but its never a dealbreaker. Its also not the fastest most zippy browser, but again, it offers a degree of control other browsers really can't approach, at least not without doing all sorts of advanced user stuff with them.

It does not lack plugins, it uses Google app store for that, same as Chrome... And it does not have any of the Google added stuff, if you are worried about security (heh, MS now).

Xuper · Apr 6, 2020

I use Vivaldi.

CityCultivator · Apr 6, 2020

EarthDog said:
That is of zero relevance for me... an nvidia user. I also prefer not to have things like that integrated into my browser. No thanks....

Your graphics card also has these settings in Nvidia control panel. The browser also supports that.
These come as part of hardware acceleration that is required for Netflix 4k playready support.

EarthDog · Apr 6, 2020

CityCultivator said:
Your graphics card also has these settings in Nvidia control panel. The browser also supports that.
These come as part of hardware acceleration that is required for Netflix 4k playready support.

Right! Well aware.

I dont want/need these features accessible through my browser.

Edit: I see I misunderstood what he meant. Either way it isnt relevant. The he acceleration works fine in chrome and has done so for God knows how long.

CityCultivator · Apr 6, 2020

EarthDog said:
Right! Well aware.

I dont want/need these features accessible through my browser.

This gives better quality video when using low resolution video. Also allows for lesser system usage on high definition videos.
As such, Edge, even the legacy one was my favourite YouTube browser.
Firefox will remain my main browser, it manages my tabs (and memory) better.

rutra80 · Apr 6, 2020

On Windows, Edge (no matter the version) is the only browser that uses underlying technology very efficiently.
Easily seen on high quality YouTube or Netflix videos where other browsers fail.
As for FF, there's too much politics and not enough technical merit in Mozilla. FF can't even vsync properly.

T4C Fantasy · Apr 6, 2020

My issue with chrome is (sometimes) when I close it I can't open it back up unless I remove it's process.. wtf

EarthDog · Apr 6, 2020

T4C Fantasy said:
My issue with chrome is (sometimes) when I close it I can't open it back up unless I remove it's process.. wtf

Wow.. havent run into that...ever... thankfully!

HammerOn1024 · Apr 6, 2020

Only because Mozilla will not get 4k HD into Firefox.

seccentral · Apr 6, 2020

DeathtoGnomes said:
if Waterfox, or any other browser really, shipped as the default browser in Windows, I'd bet it would be just as popular.

This is not newsworthy, its propaganda.

Exactly

ARF · Apr 6, 2020

seccentral said:
Exactly

No.

Windows had previously shipped with Internet Explorer and actually still does ship with it but IE was slow and unstable.
Now with Edge you have a game changer - the superior Web Browser is Edge.

dyonoctis · Apr 6, 2020

I only have two issue with the whole "because it's bundled/ internet explorer icon" argument : windows doesn't upgrade classic edge to canary automatically, I had to do it manually, and even when reinstalling with a iso downloaded 4 days ago, it still wasn't the default browser.

And I find it hard to confuse IE icon with edge canary icon...

SIGSEGV · Apr 6, 2020

Nope. I use Brave browser

Kaotik · Apr 6, 2020

Probably already said, but this news has one big mistake: Edge is both EdgeHTML and the newer Chromium based one, not just the latter.
Microsoft isn't forcing people to jump to Chromium-version yet. When they do, I need to find some other browser, Chromium isn't an option because apparently it's impossible to do decent GUI on it. Also I'm not made of RAM.

bogmali · Apr 6, 2020

Thread ban issued to those who argue and troll :rolleyes:

Makaveli · Apr 6, 2020

EarthDog said:
That is of zero relevance for me... an nvidia user. I also prefer not to have things like that integrated into my browser. No thanks....

lol you are a NV user its not intergrated into the browser.

EarthDog · Apr 6, 2020

Makaveli said:
lol you are a NV user its not intergrated into the browser.

I know...didn't I say that? Also, see my post later, the edit.

Space Lynx · Apr 6, 2020

DeathtoGnomes said:
Waterfox is better. Use it.

Firefox is better. Use it.

<insert more quips>

I switched to Vivaldi a couple weeks ago, I love it. I just ublock origin with it, change a few settings. Vivaldi is fantastic.

Totally · Apr 6, 2020

EarthDog said:
Not for me.

Move along, Alf. I dont want to debate this with you. It's a preference, plain and simple.

It is laggy, do you not use youtube? Does it on both of my PCs and laptops.

Could only tolerate it for so long after the chromium update, before switching to FF and unfortunately Firefox is sloooow in comparison.

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