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Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC
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In fear of playing devils advocate a little bit:
Edge is not a shitty browser. Ad-infested, controlling, overwhelming, disrespectful, annoying yes. But not shitty.
It’s chromium-based so it’s quite fast and secure (unlike Internet Explorer that everyone loved back in the day) and it integrates well with the overall OS.
I wouldn’t use Edge, but it’s a decent default if you’re okay accepting Windows antics or too young to remember for how long Microsoft has been desperately trying to play catch up and failing.
It’s an opinion, don’t kill me. 😶🌫️
Edit: unrelated to the topic, but I’d like to thank everyone for not downvoting me for wrong think like what would happen on that other platform. Why is this community so nice? 😭
I'd argue that those behaviours are what make the browser shitty.
That’s also a fair point, in hindsight. I associate shitty to being insecure, slow, and borderline unusable. I have a middle of the road view on the privacy aspect because Chrome exists, it doesn’t care about your privacy but I think you’ll be hard pressed to call it shitty.
That said, I wouldn’t hold my breath and I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few months time Chrome comes with Gemini integrated by default. All your private data, straight to Google’s servers.
You're very a tolerant person. I wish i could be that tolerant, but I don't think I can and I guess I do pay the price quite often..
Edge quickly became my main browser. Its Tab Groups are borderline genius.
Firefox has tab groups, tab notes, tab categories, vertical tabs
Only thing is missing integration with teams and outlook.
It's a shame Firefox's tab groups are quite bad at what their supposed to do and their colour schemes are quite obnoxious.
I haven't used edge. Could you tell me what I'm missing out on?
I don't use edge either. I'm comparing it to chrome.
On Firefox, for some reason, the tab and tab text colours are as if you had high contrast theme on. They are horrible to look at.
There are also a bunch of small, but over all annoying, QoL features missing. For example when you have a tab open from a tab group and you click the tab group to minimise it, it doesn't minimise the tab you have selected.
Just small things like that. It just feels unfinished.
I do like vertical tabs too.. But Firefox has a plugin for that so I've been using Firefox the last year or so and rarely have an issue.
Firefox has vertical tabs natively now, actually.
Oh nice, I guess I didn't notice. I'll check that out, it may have switched automatically with an update.
Yeah it was relatively recently that they added them. I wanna say within the last 6 months, but I could be wrong. There's also tab grouping, now, I think.
Vivaldi also has tab groups.
Until they started to generate slopilot labels for them. Because nothing is safe from the slop.
Might be. I have a cleanup tool that disabled stuff like that OS wide. I kept the Edge shopping assistant, because it did find me a few sweet deals early on.
Firefox has tab groups too. I don't know if the implementation is any different since I've never used them in either browser.
Yeah, their quite bad tbh. And the colour options are horrendous.
I used it for a little bit years ago after it switched to a chromium engine. It was fine.