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Re:Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users by codebolt on Monday September 11, 2023 @02:11AM (#37463500)
My 8 year old son inherited an old laptop this week, that was too slow to consider installing Win 11, so I ended up loading it with XUbuntu. The first thing I did was actually to install Edge, because that makes it possible to monitor his web browsing using MS Parental Controls. I actually think it's a good browser, certainly better than Chrome (too bloated) or Firefox (too buggy). I'll never understand HNs relentless hatred for all things MS.
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Re:Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users by makapuf on Monday September 11, 2023 @02:40AM (#37463714)
When a company uses dirty tactics against your project, forcing its (at the time) inferior product by strong arming pc vendors, call your project a Cancer and tries to undermine java and the Web and has been found guilty on court, some animosity is in order. Yeah its been a long time. Seeing current practices, not so much it seems.
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Re:Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users by devsda on Monday September 11, 2023 @02:58AM (#37463843)
What are these bugs that people encounter that often in Firefox?

I've been using using Firefox on Linux and Mac for a long time now and I'm yet to see any bug(a rare occurrence) that is a show stopper(for me atleast).

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Re:Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users by Zetobal on Monday September 11, 2023 @04:06AM (#37464309)
I guess the "best viewed with" and "please use the last version of chrome" banners preventing you from logging in some services could be seen as a bug from normal users.
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Re:Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users by codebolt on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:16AM (#37478526)
This is the reason. Too often I will go to a site and find that it's unusable with Firefox.
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Re:Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users by deutschepost on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:26AM (#37466928)
Some anti virus software will impede site loading times in firefox or even normal operation. Windows will protect edge and other microsoft software from AV. But depending on how bad the AV is, other software will have less luck.
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