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Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] orclev@lemmy.world 93 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Microsoft Edge is actually good, so I sure hope the team building it isn’t about to resort to more tricks to get Chrome users to use it.

Edge is good compared to IE which was a dumpster fire, and arguably about as bad as Chrome. Both are privacy nightmares and desire nothing more than to harvest your data for ad companies. I trust Google a hair more than I do Microsoft. I don't use Chrome. That should tell you something.

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Nonsense, Edge is a top tier Chromium browser. Vivaldi is another good Chromium option although I no longer use it. Chrome while a decent browser however is irrelevant in my eyes on any W10/W11 since Edge is part of OS.

Every day I use both Edge (only at work) and Firefox (home and work), both have pros and cons. I tried to switch from Firefox to Vivaldi less than 1 year ago, but there are some thing in Chromium based browsers that I did not like when compared to Firefox. Bookmark management was a big one (no tags).

[+] abhibeckert@lemmy.world -23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I disagree. Chrome is a simple well designed browser that happens to be run by a company that tries to push things we don't like, such as FLoC.

Edge is full of bloatware and dark patterns. You're probably thinking of the early versions of Edge when none of that crap had been added yet... but trust me it's a very different browser now. In fact it's worse than IE ever was.

[–] NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Meh. My work gives me the choice of Chrome and Edge. I decided to try edge to get access to bing chat last year, and I've found it to be a pleasant experience compared to chrome. It's got some neat features, and the built in copilot AI can be handy. I haven't missed chrome (or Google for that matter) in the year I've been using edge. It's fine. Still use Firefox on my personal laptop and phone though.

[–] xpinchx@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

My chief complaint is performance. Some of the saas we use has some complex renders and edge really struggles with it. Works perfect in Firefox though ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 4 points 10 months ago

You can just use a firefox plugin for Bing chat FYI

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 16 points 10 months ago

worse than IE ever was

This argument can be made for spying/telemetry, but I don't think anything will compare to how bad the IE user experience was for years. It ran so slowly, and took forever to get features like tabbed internet browsing. It started to get more functional towards the end once it started losing market share, but that was after years of it being complete garbage while having absolute market dominance.