“Seriuosly unpopular” and the base for that claim is a reddit post with 300 upvotes. Don’t get me wrong, fuck microslop and edge, but this title could not be more sensationalistic.
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Ok. It just looks the same to me other than the forced material design cues.
I guess that’s one way to outdo Internet Explorer.
Fuckin dummies. lol
Meh. I disabled it in the registry
Edge or the slop? I’m not really a Windows guy.
Edge. Got tired of Windows defaulting to it every time it opened a Microsoft site.
I wish Bill Gates would publicly trip and fall on banana peels like Bezos does.
Who the fuck even uses Edge?
I used it once to download Firefox.
I used it today to add a signature to a PDF.
You will be judged harshly. Next time just use an install file on a USB, you know, like someone who isn’t a shit eating corporate shill greedily guzzling the pendulous dong of microsoft, you piece of shit. I hate you and you deserve to be hated. Do better. Fuck.
/s, just in case…
I needed that /s
Required to use edge by work.
Unfortunately, my workplace stuck on Windows due to specific software we utilize. We’re not bound to any browsers tho. I find it cool that our sysadmins use only Firefox. (Maybe not anymore with how Mozilla began to push AI in their browser.)
Yeah we are too. But for some strange reason the policy I deleted from my account appears to have been deleted from my account. Goodness knows how that happened.
It’s so stupid though we have some SAP modules that actually require Internet Explorer because they’re super duper old and have never been updated. So there are quite a few users that don’t actually have to follow that policy.
Enterprises
Hey now, you’ve got to use something to download Firefox on a brand new windows install.
I didn’t used to be this guy, but… LINUX.
Hey now, you’ve got to use something to download
Firefoxa Linux ISO on a brand new windows install.There is gateway software out there, folks!
Don’t jump off the deep end like this degenerate…
I’m running distro installs on perfectly set-up rigs and customizing the bios just to feel normal. I installed Wine and Proton on my Pebble just because I could. The other day I blew a guy so that I could talk to him about start-up efficiency and convince him to take an Arch boot drive from me that he promised to install on his 2008 dell mini PC. I told him it would run Skyrim!
Learn from my mistakes. Linux… not even once.
Sucking data out of an ethernet cable isn’t normal. But on Linux it is.
But seriously, did it run?
I mean, there were a few extra installs and whatnot, but hell yeah it worked, because that’s Linux, baby.
Edit: The part about the 2008 dell mini pc is inspired by true events, but it was mint, not arch, I don’t fuck with arch. And with some tweaking it did run skyrim.
At my work we call the ‘granny browser’.
My use of Edge is pretty much only for opening PDFs.
Pfft, Firefox can do that.
;)
My company pushes us to use copilot and I end up going back to chatgpt (I use them mainly as glorified search engines, error code debuggers and coding assistants). Copilot constantly has availability issues. Sort of tough to use a site that isn’t available.
I never got an issue with copilot, at least in Visual Studio (only one I use).
Make repetitive tasks like unit test a breeze. And very useful for debugging issues with tools like Entity Framework.
I switched to full Linux on my personal hardware though. I only use Windows for work.
That sounds like GitHub Copilot though.
This post gave me the last push to defy my employer’s stupid policies and install Waterfox in lieu of Edge… thanks MicroSlop
There was almost no reason to use Edge to begin with not much changes here.
I’m very glad I’m using Vivaldi (which is a Chromium browser, but still)
I hate Microsoft edge with a burning passion, and Microslop tries to force me to use it when I click any link from Outlook
Your tools actively make my job HARDER
It is so obnoxious. Fuck Microsoft, fuck Edge, and fuck Outlook.
Edge was fine, i use it at work to further separate personal use from work use further. It’s vertical tabs are top tier and being able to have the dev tools have vertical tabs is also a massive plots for productivity. However the latter is getting removed for seemingly no reason and once that’s gone there’s no boon to using edge anymore and I’ll just use a separate Firefox profile or use some chromium browser for work.
Edge was fine
When? it always sucked monkey balls… when MS finally gave up and turned Edge into basically chrome with an ugly theme, it was a leap forward… but they soon enshitified it so bad it quickly became a complete bloated mess
As a base browser. I think edge is better than standard Chrome if you want Chromium.
why? (if you don’t mind me asking)
I find it slower than chromium with a ton of oddly organized settings
Its developers tools, as is is better than chromes.
And like i said in my original comment it’s vertical tabs are one of the best implementations out there at the moment.
It has sensible tab folder features which I usually don’t use in other browsers but in edge they’re great.
It also has what they call workspaces that keeps the exact state of your tabs across signed in instances if the browser irregardless of device (it even syncs in real-time - which has helped me in times at work when i can remote into multiple different devices on our network).
Granted i can understand on personal devices the signed in workspaces may sound awful to most but on a device where i already have to be signed in to a Microsoft account for work anyway, it’s a moot point for me. My work laptop is the only windows device i have in the house if that’s worth any merit. Windows is awful, getting worse by the way and edge will soon be following suit so even though I’m praising it in its current state, I can’t see me continuing to do so for much longer.
Oh didn’t know Edge has workspace that functions similar to Firefox multi container. Not that I am going to change to Edge, but it’s still neat.
Are the vertical tabs better than Vivaldi? If tabs are the metric, Vivaldi is better.
My primary is Firefox because fuck chrome, but if I had to compare Edge to other chromium implementations I would go with Vivaldi.
Vivaldi is unusable for me because you can’t have the bookmarks bar only show on the new tab screen, and they seem unwilling to add that in to save face in a few discussions they’ve had about that feature, it’s weird.
My primary is Firefox too by the way.
Firefox vertical tabs are better IMO. At least you can close them when minimized, which Edge cannot.
Firefox has tree style tabs add-on. Gamechanger
It’s built into Firefox now.
really? able to nest nultiple times etc?
I’m not sure about nesting, but Containers works well with them.
It does this from Outlook on android too. It’s horrid
Settings > Open links in
Thanks, you’re the hero we need in these dark times
“AI-powered browser” Who exactly do these marketing people think will be impressed by that? Is it supposed to appeal to hardcore tech people? Non-techies?Will literally anyone be swayed by that blurb?
Certainly not me or you.
Bless you, hero
Imagine using Edge when other browsers exist.
I use it on my work PC and I have to admit that it’s not that bad…
Yeah, same.
It’s not terrible, but it feels like it’s slowly becoming worse as they add new garbage. And especially if they start forcing a bunch of AI shit I’m out.
But I think a lot of people brush it off outright without really using it. Or, because it’s Lemmy, anything that’s not linux = bad.
“What is my purpose?” “You download Firefox”
winget install -e --id Mozilla.FirefoxI actually have Firefox also installed on that machine, but some (internal) sites work better in Edge, so I mostly use Edge on that PC.
Actually Edge prior to this was a fine browser. Like a lightweight chrome. It was actually just good enough to not really make you want to install a new browser unless it was your daily driver personal PC.
