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I know you can play the game at chrome://dino, but it doesn't evoke the same nostalgic feeling of a 10yr old me turning on aeroplane mode and spamming space bar to try and beat my brother's high score. Good memories.

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[–] sicjoke@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Here we go.

I use edge exclusively on Windows and have zero issues

[–] spike@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's just Chromium in disguise anyway.

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[–] Oswald_Buzzbald@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you happy with it? If so, that's all that matters.

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be very happy if my browser injected ads into webpages.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It does that? I use Edge with ublock origin and have zero issues.

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

uBlock origin might be able to block Edge's embedded ads, but yes, Edge does that. For example, if you go to the page to download Google Chrome, a banner ad covers the top half of your screen that advertises Edge's features.

Even if uBlock fixes this, I don't know why anyone would want to use a browser that does this in the first place when better Chromium based browsers exist, especially Brave. (I prefer Firefox, but I understand the need to use Chromium instead of Gecko as webpages are generally slightly more reliable).

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Brave and their crypto bs? I wouldn’t touch them.

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[–] StewartGilligan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Honestly speaking, I've used Edge on Windows and have had no issues. It's a decent browser not taking privacy into consideration. The only thing pissing me off is supporting the Chromium monopoly.

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm very glad it works for you. Edge is a perfectly fine browser ever since they ditched their engine and copied Google's Chrome with a coat of paint and a couple extensions baked in.

To be frank though, if Edge forking Chromium is the best the tech titan Microsoft can do, I'm genuinely disappointed in them, and I'd rather just use Chromium.

[–] ButhJolokia@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it was a sensible decision to drop their own engine as nobody liked it anyway. Might as well go with a proven one and use your resources on stuff your customers want you to focus on. Since Nadella took over, Microsoft has been very well managed imo and they made a lot of right moves, like their move into cloud computing, embracing open source, integrating linux subsystem on windows, etc...

Their choice to ditch their IE/edge engine is a symptom of these better managerial choices.

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[–] User_4272894@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use edge for my work accounts on my work computers. It's nice to have passwords auto fill and everything integrated through my windows sign on, and be "air gapped" from my personal stuff. I find experience to be basically identical to my home surfing on other chromium-based browsers.

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[–] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Edge is actually better than Chrome. Don't @ me. I still prefer Firefox to both and always have.

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[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Chrome is the "One of my fuck ton of Firefox addons broke this site but I don't want to waste time figuring out what one" browser.

[–] Solaris1789@jlai.lu 22 points 2 years ago

Tbh id just use ungoogled chromium for this, having the "pros" of chrome without the spying and spook

[–] spacedancer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol same. I also use it for time critical stuff where you don't want to risk a site breaking, like when trying to get tickets for good seats on a concert when sale opens.

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[–] StewartGilligan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

This is why profiles are so useful. You can use one when the other breaks. I've got about 7 profiles each perfectly tuned to a specific niche.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago (5 children)

My brother in christ, just run winget install firefox in command prompt and be done. Fuck chrome and edge.

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[–] StewartGilligan@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The meme was designed in LibreOffice. It worked surprisingly well. Only open source software was used for the creation of this meme.

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[–] Wootz@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox

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[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

emerge --ask www-client/firefox

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[–] milkjug@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Real Men™ compile from source!

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[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I will always find it funny that people use Edge to download Chrome because they are essentially using Chrome to download a worse version of Chrome.

[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I keep finding less and less ms products that are even palatable...

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[–] Eavolution@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago

Laughs in Arch with no preinstalled browser.

I use Arch btw.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago
[–] shayan16sa@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

F*ck edge and Windows all of my homies use Linux distro which Firefox is installed on them by default.

[–] razieltakato@lemmy.eco.br 15 points 2 years ago

Edge have a surf game that's a clone of SkiFree:

You don't need Chrome anymore

[–] narp@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago

Now with googles DRM plans everyone should consider leaving chromium based Browsers.

The only way to retain the little freedom and privacy that we still have is if we start to care and put in at least a bit of resistance.

[–] Dukeofdummies@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

PSA:
Edge is also what you should use whenever you're making a public presentation and need to open a browser.

Why? Because you never use edge, therefore autocomplete is almost empty which means you can type:

  1. x
  2. p
  3. h
  4. r

With full confidence that NOTHING will appear that you will not want public.

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[–] Jmr@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Firefox: My Web browser
Chrome: for when sites don't work with Firefox (rare)
Edge: Uninstalled

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[–] YellowmanfromMoon@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Librewolf ftw

[–] Ultra980@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

laughs in Linux, with firefox preinstalled and no edge

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

jokes on you, firefox came pre-installed on my OS 😎

[–] Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The dinosaur game was out when you were ten? Jesus I feel old. When I was ten our home computer was still running Window 98.

[–] andthenthreemore@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cries in 3.1.1 for workgroups.

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[–] Syudagye@pawb.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I do not event TOUCH edge, i use powershell to download the firefox installer

[–] Sir_Osis_of_Liver@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Weird flex, but okay

[–] MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Appreciate this meme created from LibreOffice.

[–] Kalkaline@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are times when I want to use the Bing AI, so I'll pop open Edge, but the Microsoft home screen is so terrible.

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