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[–] 24 points 2 years ago (18 children)

Google when people stop using chrome

Not so sure about that. I know more than enough persons who still like to use Edge (Internet Explorer).

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    The problem isn't Edge in itself. It is good if there are many browsers. But when Javascript became more than just a play thing, all of a sudden browser slowly moved to chromium as an engine. There used to be Opera, IE, Edge, Firefox, Safari and Chrome with each their own browser engine. Now there is only Chromium/Blink, Safari and Firefox left. Google is way too powerful with their marketshare. They constantly try to implement features that are bad for users.

    Please use Firefox if you can!

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Now there is only Chromium/Blink, Safari/WebKit and Firefox/Gecko left.

    {browser}/{browser_engine}

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

    New engines are in test stage, servo, ladybird etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The problem is that it will take ages for them to get any adoption in a new browser. Firefox used to be a big player and then chrome came along. Now most of the people don't even try Firefox anymore. I still hear a lot of "Firefox is slow" sentiment even though it isn't.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I use Edge at work and it's a really decent browser. It's not Internet Explorer it's basically Chrome with different tracking software lol

    Obviously I use Firefox personally. But it's actually decent.

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

    I also use it at work and it really sucks. I also have Chrome on my work computer, but for everything work-related I have to use Edge. Like E-Mails and Sharepoint-Stuff. Edge's startup time is at least 4 times Chrome's startup time. Sites load extremely slow directly compared to Chrome. No Adblockers. I really don't like this.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    You can install extensions right from the Chrome Web Store with Edge. I have uBlock Origin in Edge on my work PC.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I also use it at work and it really sucks. I also have Chrome on my work computer, but for everything work-related I have to use Edge. Like E-Mails and Sharepoint-Stuff.

    That's a decision your IT department made. I use Firefox with all of that at work.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Can confirm. I also have to use Sharepoint with certain groups, and it works just fine. The web interface for Outlook works just fine as well.

    I also have to use Google at work, and everything I've used works within Firefox.

    I think it's important to point this out because a lot of people seem to be laboring under the misconception that the sites they use will break in Firefox. The only sites I've found that don't work are things like Bing AI, which work fine if you switch the user agent header.

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