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Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by Roritharr on Sunday January 29, 2017 @03:26PM (#13516392)
With UBlock Edge being available, Edge is quickly becoming my favorite browser. It feels faster than Chrome and the DevTools are nearly as good.
Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by bostand on Sunday January 29, 2017 @04:59PM (#13516972)
As far as I know, there is no uBlock for Edge right now.

not the real ublock any way

Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by Roritharr on Sunday January 29, 2017 @05:05PM (#13517009)
Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by bostand on Sunday January 29, 2017 @05:15PM (#13517085)
This version is not developed by the original developer (Gorhil).

Given what happened after the previous ublock splitt iam hesitant to use it.

Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by vizzier on Sunday January 29, 2017 @08:04PM (#13517895)
Not a user of the edge version myself but the above version is endorsed on the uBlock origin repo: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#microsoft-edge
Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by devwastaken on Sunday January 29, 2017 @05:05PM (#13517010)
I've found edge to just be an auto-updated version of IE. Microsoft still thinks they're special, so they don't have to implement some functionality all other browsers do. I would highly prefer all of my users to be on Firefox or Chrome, or else I still end up writing special code for 'Internet Edge'.
Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by jjcm on Sunday January 29, 2017 @11:00PM (#13518532)
> "or else I still end up writing special code for 'Internet Edge'"

I really haven't experienced this at all. Up until about a month ago when they pushed a big update, Safari has been my problem child browser. IE Edge has been really solid with conformance. Looking at compliance to the html5 spec, edge is neck and neck with firefox: https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html

Disclaimer: I used to work for ms, but not on edge.

Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by ancarda on Sunday January 29, 2017 @06:03PM (#13517331)
What functionality is missing from Edge? I don't use it, but I've been following with a lot of enthusiasm as Edge supports all kinds of 'un-Microsoft' stuff these days like WebM: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/04/18/webm-vp9-and-...

Comparing the last version of IE, the latest Edge and, the latest Chrome: https://html5test.com/compare/browser/ie-11/edge-12/edge-15/... it looks like it's catching up and implementing a lot of important APIs.

As far as I know, Edge is a little slow to adopt new stuff, perhaps because they're afraid of implementing something and having everyone scream "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish!" at them.

Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by devwastaken on Sunday January 29, 2017 @11:48PM (#13518764)
http://getbootstrap.com/browser-bugs/

The specific cases I've had are with how SVG's are rendered and that manipulating them with css does not work in-document like it does in Chrome or Firefox.

The bugs page itself isn't very insightful, but if you look at the issues posted, you'l see that there is significantly less conversation or involvement of people into the problems. By itself, Edge not being open source should make it unfit for usage, but they also don't involve themselves nearly as much in the web community. This is one big factor why chrome gets more vulnerability reports than Edge.

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224/...

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/p...

Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by jedikv on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:40AM (#13529395)
I find the sparse touch-focused UI on desktop awful. Plus it seems to lock up more than other browers during heavy page loading.
Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by TLLtchvL8KZ on Monday January 30, 2017 @04:06AM (#13519572)
The day uBO was put on the MS store I removed Chrome from my computer and have no regrets whatsoever.
Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by BugsJustFindMe on Sunday January 29, 2017 @06:03PM (#13517333)
Can Edge save text documents without a hyperlink yet?
Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by Findeton on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @07:06AM (#13529839)
You mean you use WINDOWS? O_o