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Microsoft Edge, anyone? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious... does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?

EDIT: Well, you all have provided some interesting perspectives I hadn't ever considered. Including one which means I'll have to install Edge, so... thanks, I guess. 😂

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[–] 43 points 3 years ago (13 children)

It has a slightly better privacy policy compared to google chrome while fully supporting progressive web apps on Linux. Edge is also very much so more efficient in terms of system resource utilization. It also has high quality native built in translation which I need. All of this means I use Edge as my PWA browser.

Chromium lacks native translation support. Firefox PWA support is not good. Edge was the least bad option for me. 🤷‍♀️

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    How is edge more efficient? It's literally chromium

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Chrome is basically Chromium+bloat so this doesn't surprise me.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    And Edge is chromium + Microsoft Bloat.

    One could argue using it on Windows means only allowing M$ to spy on you, theoretically. Though I would not be surprised if M$ uses a custom version of Chromium including Google trackers, so the opposite of degoogled chromium.

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  • [+] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    The core browser is still good, but they keep changing and adding annoying things and doing questionable privacy things like sending images to their servers “for enhancement”. For a while they removed the ability to remove sync data, but I think it may have been added back again after backlash.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Brave has PWAs, but I'm not sure about the translation support

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    True. But brave is run by a crypto advertising company. Their business model is advertising and crypto tokens. I trust crypto bros less than I trust Microsoft.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I trust crypto bros less than I trust Microsoft.

    Why trust either? #firefox

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    Because firefox’s PWA behavior is not as I wish..

    What I wish is a firefox fork dedicated to PWA. It should be Privacy first and as intuitive to use as it can. Best would be, if it was designed like an app store.

    Called PWApp-sore, I guess

    Sadly I have no time to (learn) develop(ing)

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