Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Windows Store

Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by skrebbel on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:15AM (#15968148)

> Edge (which is kind of a low feature Internet Explorer).

I agree with your comment in general, but Edge really is significantly better than IE. It supports most modern web stuff, it's much faster and the UI is pretty nice and clean. Sure, the latter is a matter of taste too but it really beats IE on all fronts.

Opinions clearly vary on whether it can compete with the likes of Chrome and Firefox, but it's not a "low feature Internet Explorer". It's a decent piece of work.

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Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by frou_dh on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:09AM (#15968903)

To me, it feels like they jumped from having a D-grade browser to a B-grade browser.

Good work, but I'm still not going to use it, given I've already had A-grade browsers for many years.

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Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by pjc50 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @05:04AM (#15968370)

Edge has ugly font rendering (seems to be common to all Metro apps) and loses all your tabs when you quit (total dealbreaker for me).

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Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by calvano915 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:27PM (#15975869)

I don't lose tabs when I close Edge (it does warn that I am closing all tabs when I exit). They come back when I open Edge the next time. Definitely a setting that can be switched.

The only suggestion for fonts is maybe using the ClearType font tuner tool in Control Panel.

FWIW I prefer Chrome but dig what MS is doing with Edge.

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Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by swiley on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @05:38AM (#15968507)

I really really wish Firefox would actually close the tabs when I quit.

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Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by onemore2 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @06:07AM (#15968644)

Preferences -> General Tab -> When Firefox Starts -> "Show Your Home Page" instead of "Show my windows and tabs from last time"

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Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by jibreel on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @06:39AM (#15968757)

Can't you uncheck "Show your windows and tabs from last time" from settings ?

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Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @06:29AM (#15968721)

Isn't that the default non-mobile behaviour of Chrome and Firefox too?

Though I admit it seems weird for a browser that's apparently designed for mobile.

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Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by majewsky on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:39AM (#15968265)

IE probably wouldn't even exist anymore if it weren't for legacy intranet websites that require Java applets and run ActiveX plugins.

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Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by piscisaureus on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:52AM (#15969093)

IMO Edge is a fine browser - snappy, stable, up-to-date with web standards.

My big beef with it is that it tries to force feed me Bing wherever it can (even after switching the default search engine). That's a big no-no.

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Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by Const-me on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @10:25AM (#15970314)

I’m using Edge and haven’t noticed any Bing promotions. Using DDG for my default search engine.

But I did notice google is trying to force feed me Chrome when I visit google’s web sites. I click “No I don’t want Chrome” in these popups, the popup disappears for a few days and then pops up again.

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