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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by swebs on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:59PM (#22057837)
Phrasing it as a dichotomy like that is pretty dishonest, especially how Firefox is twice as popular than Edge [1] and is free open source software that doesn't spy on you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Su...

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by sho_hn on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:05PM (#22057903)
I think the situation invites that specific comparison because the new Edge is based on Chromium. I didn't read it as leaving out Firefox for any other reason.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by dessant on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:50PM (#22058375)
Microsoft is replicating the entire browser ecosystem, so developers and users who prefer Chromium are no longer bound to Google. Firefox is my browser of choice, and their reviewer team is wonderful, see my other [1] comment, though all of this is tangential to Firefox.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22057859

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by mmanfrin on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:35PM (#22058191)
OP didn't mention Safari or Brave either, don't be so hair-trigger looking for offense.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by int_19h on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:13PM (#22059355)
The dichotomy comes up because the new Edge supports Chrome extensions. So it's literally the same code being submitted to both stores, which makes it more of an apples-to-apples comparison.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by bla3 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @08:32PM (#22060831)
Firefox and Safari are source compatible with chrome extensions too. Everyone copied Chrome's extension api.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by halfjoking on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @10:59PM (#22061569)
Ryan Gosling thinks differently:

https://superanimo.s3.amazonaws.com/porting-firefox-extensio...

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by techntoke on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:29PM (#22058877)
Firefox has the same analytics and browser feedback settings enabled as Chromium, and both have options to disable them.
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