Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by tssva on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @10:01AM (#18599953)

>Firefox is now a fast, lean and fantastic browser again.

This is not my experience. On my MacBook Pro it is slow and tends to cause system lockups on a regular basis. Everytime there is a new announcement about how the new Firefox has improved performance and stability I give it a try and each time am disappointed.

On my phone the Firefox browser is almost unusably slow and slow enough that it can't replace Chrome. Mozilla has released other mobile browsers which perform faster but they lack the features I need in my browser.

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by davemp on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @10:48AM (#18600430)

If one doesn't want to rely on anecdata, here [1] is a benchmark. Based on my experience and this benchmark, I don't how such a negative opinion can be supported.

[1]: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3213031/computers/best-web-b...

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by godzillabrennus on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @02:50AM (#18606406)

Clearly Edge isn't a terrible engine. Why wouldn't Microsoft just open source it instead of switching to Chromium?

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by davemp on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @06:04AM (#18607251)

I’m not sure, but I’m forced to use edge at work. There are a litany of details that annoy me about the browser—speed not being one.

Likely some suit just presented a convincing PowerPoint on how MS could save some dosh.

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by bluejekyll on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @11:22AM (#18600808)

I don’t experience any lockup’s. I switched to Firefox as my main browser on Linux and macOS over a year ago full time. Google Meet finally works properly with it, so I don’t even have to use chrome for that last thing.

I don’t know what you’re doing, but I’ve never had a lockup in that entire time (and I run Beta), as far as I can tell, it is the fastest of all my options.

The very last thing that I notice any difference on is energy usage, for which Safari is still king. I don’t use Firefox on my iPhone, as there’s not much point (I wish Apple would change their restriction here).

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by r00fus on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @12:05AM (#18605806)

My anecdotal experience shows a) less of a battery hog than Chrome for like 40-50 tabs b) now works with all my sites (exception being Google drive share box has blinky UI) c) it doesn't keep begging me to "sign in"

For this it's become my main work browser. At home I mainly use safari and it works great for 15-ish tabs.

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by demarq on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @11:10AM (#18600669)

Same here, I see a whole lot of marketing and people saying it is fast, but 10 minutes into trying it seems to just struggle.

Watching youtube in 1080p it struggles and CPU goes up, fans are on.

Scrolling Heavy e-commerce sites (amazon, jumia)... CPU goes up, fans are on.

Yet, run chrome on these same sites, with the same settings and no fan noises/frezes at all.

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by seba_dos1 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @11:58AM (#18601191)

I seem to recall that there was a bug on macOS which made it eat too much CPU on non-native screen resolutions (UI scaling) for some reason, which likely explains drastic differences in how people perceive Firefox there.

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