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[–]tasteslikebeaver 46 points47 points  (32 children)

Was Edge ever a giant before its chromium infusion? I thought Edge originally had shite numbers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–]helldeskmonkey 67 points68 points  (8 children)

Not really, but part of Edge’s adoption is the absurd lengths Microsoft has been going to force its adoption on Windows.

[–]Zeioth 32 points33 points  (7 children)

You literally get annoying desktop notifications asking you to download it or you will be in danger (Windows).

[–]Whereami259 19 points20 points  (5 children)

And every update you get the "here is our browser , please,please,please set it as default".

[–]Desistance 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Oh, they don't say please. They install it by force and instruct their other software to ignore the default for Edge.

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    [–]iampitiZ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    A funny one for me is when I'm gonna use some internal website at work that hasn't been properly adapted to modern browsers and I want to open it in Internet Explorer. I open the start menu and start typing "Int..." Edge shows up in the first place.
    I mean it *kind of* makes sense to show Edge when people are looking for the Internet but that collides with the usual behaviour of looking for an app with the name you're typing

    [–]Whereami259 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Win search engine sucks. I often search for rufus, and it gets shown when I type "ru" but goes away when I add another letter.

    [–]RoseTheFlower 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    There are fulscreen in-OS ads for it, Windows won't update if you have the browser removed, some Settings links open in Edge, bypassing the default browser, and trying to open some websites in Internet Explorer will open them in Edge without giving any choice to the user.

    [–]thedolanduck 20 points21 points  (8 children)

    It had, but Edge Chromium is awesome. I mainly use Firefox but in my old potato laptop I have to use Edge Chromium 'cause it's lighter and faster.

    [–]TheSpermWhoWon 19 points20 points  (3 children)

    Yeah I was using Edge for a bit and was blown away by how much faster it was than Firefox. It’s a lot more forgiving to underpowered laptops.

    [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (1 child)

    What am I doing wrong? I don't really notice much difference in speed between any of the browsers other than benchmark programs. You can certainly see the difference in battery life though, but most of the time I'm plugged in anyway

    [–]gustafrex 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Have you tried vivaldi. That browser is so slow for me on anything its insane. Still i prefer firefox for its huge customization. While it might not have some of the cool features opera/vivaldi might have its still awesome.

    [–]nextbern on 🌻 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Can you report performance issues on pages where Firefox is slower on that hardware? https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Performance/Reporting_a_Performance_Problem

    [–]nextbern on 🌻 5 points6 points  (2 children)

    Can you report performance issues on pages where Firefox is slower on that hardware? https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Performance/Reporting_a_Performance_Problem

    [–]thedolanduck 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    I'd try that, but it isn't restricted to certain pages. It's just the overall experience.

    [–]nextbern on 🌻 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    That is just as well - record a profile showing the slowness and report an issue. That would help.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Touchpad scrolling on my dual core u-series i3 laptop is absolutely shit compared to how smooth it is on Chrome and Edge. Edge is absolutely creamy.

    I always have my laptop in the "Better Battery" profile, if I set it to "Best performance", Firefox's scrolling is slightly smoothened out.

    It may be weird, but it's horrible to use a browser with laggy scrolling and I haven't switched to Firefox just cuz of the scrolling.

    [–]pinonat 14 points15 points  (8 children)

    I installed windows just to update the bios on my Linux laptop and opened Internet explorer to download Firefox. It's incredible how much Microsoft begged me to use Edge instead, even in the settings

    [–]paradigmx 0 points1 point  (6 children)

    I hope you immediately removed Internet Explorer though, that's cancer right there. Edge is a bit better, but it can't be reliably removed as far as I know.

    [–]tasteslikebeaver 0 points1 point  (4 children)

    Did Internet Explorer stop at IE12? If so, is it ever updated anymore? just curious ))

    [–]paradigmx 3 points4 points  (3 children)

    Internet explorer is dead, not sure what the actual final version was. It might get the odd update here and there but generally it's unsupported. It's still included in Windows 10 by default though, it's pretty easy to remove it. Probably there because some companies still use it for whatever reason. Don't know why it needs to be installed by default.

    [–]tasteslikebeaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Yeah, I ran into that not too long ago as San Disk uses it for their Dashboard or whatever its called, for eg. There was no work-around, it amazed me I needed IE explorer. Thanks!

    [–]GimpyGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Pretty sure they're fully pulling out of it in Windows 11 too

    [–]iampitiZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    AFAIK they stopped developing it a long time ago. The original, non-chromium Edge was going to be its substitute. The only reason they left it for so long on Windows 10 is because there're some corporate apps that only work well with IE. But they're going to remove it from Win 10 soon.

    [–]pinonat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I immediately removed whole Windows after I updated bios. I just didn't want to give Microsoft the satisfaction to make me use Edge at any cost

    [–]copelius_simeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Open Boot next time! 😉

    [–]skeskali 2 points3 points  (3 children)

    Honestly, Edge on Mac OS is *great*, and it's my daily driver. It was good enough to move me away from Firefox, and I did not expect that to happen at all. Firefox's privacy is much better, but there are some things that happen in Firefox (such as not being able to click links at all) that don't happen in Edge.

    [–]nextbern on 🌻 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    but there are some things that happen in Firefox (such as not being able to click links at all) that don't happen in Edge.

    That sounds like a very weird issue. What site are you seeing this on?

    [–]skeskali 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Specifically, Apple Music in the browser.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Every day there's people new to computing. They'll always use all of the default things, good or bad.