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Re:Browser diversity starts with us by mrec on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:20AM (#19076971)
I don't think I ever tried Edge - what advantages did it have?
Re:Browser diversity starts with us by teekert on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:35AM (#19077118)
Starts fast, minimal UI, low battery usage, good built in pdf reader, fancy visual tabs (pull tabbar down, see miniature pages), set tabs aside feature is nice. But mainly it just feels very fast. This probably won't change with when they start to base on blink but that leaves the issues discussed here.
Re:Browser diversity starts with us by tyingq on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:38AM (#19077137)
The sandbox in Edge also seemed well thought out: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/03/23/strengthening...
Re:Browser diversity starts with us by vbezhenar on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:48AM (#19077222)
I used it few months and it mostly worked just fine. I had few crashes but those were rare. The main drawback was that their developer console was somewhat buggy, so eventually I switched back to Chrome because I needed it. Also 1Password extension for Edge was buggy as well.

And, oh my god, how many times Google asked me to install Chrome. They are really annoying with those ads which never stop to appear. I suppose that for many users that might be the reason to switch to Chrome, to stop that insanity.

Re:Browser diversity starts with us by Ntrails on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:03PM (#19078031)
> And, oh my god, how many times Google asked me to install Chrome.

Interesting - I've never seen that in FireFox

Re:Browser diversity starts with us by bluGill on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:19AM (#19077529)
Microsoft should have put an anti-trust lawsuit on google for that. Google has enough of a monopoly that asking users to install chrome qualifies as abuse.
Re:Browser diversity starts with us by YetAnotherNick on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:33PM (#19078431)
I opened microsoft site and it only showed me microsoft affiliated products. I think an anti trust lawsuit should be filed for that.
Re:Browser diversity starts with us by tyingq on Monday February 04, 2019 @01:48PM (#19079346)
That is sort of equating a business with the road that leads to it.