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Chrome is an alternative browser for most people.
I know someone who insists they realy like Edge.
I dunno about most. Some, sure.
Browser market share 2009-2025
That green line is Chrome.
To be fair, it’s really easy to switch to edge, you just use the browser you currently use, then after a bit you open edge and viola, all your data was transferred without your consent, including passwords, tabs, cache, everything.
(Source: happened to me 3 times)
My name isn't Viola
Edge saves your passwords in plain text 😬
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Wait-- for real???
Yeah
There isn't much difference between the two honestly. If you're on Windows, you could argue it's better for just one company to have your data as opposed to two.
I don't think he was referring to browsers when he said he liked edge.
LOL...
I promise you she was
I prefer Edge to Chrome, but if you want or need a Chromium based browser there are better options. I personally prefer Waterfox which is not Chromium based mostly for the shorter UI chrome which leaves more room for the content.
Yeah.
Edge still has its problems, but it's nowhere near the hot mess it wass in 2015 when it was basically a reskinned IE. Once they switched to Chromium it was still a hot mess, butit did get polished and has all the features you'd expect of a modern browser.
That being said, Edge is the main innovator behind built-in AI chats and similar bloat, which Chrome also likes to shove down people's throats.
And although the feature has existed as a Firefox addon for ages, I think the first browser to support tab groups and horizontal tabs was Edge.
So since both are pretty on-par feature (and bloat) wise, run the same engine and are made and maintained by billion-dollar corpos gobbling user data, both seem like two sides of the same coin.
So for 'normies', it pretty much boils down to which ecosystem you're more ingrained - that will make you prefer Edge or Chrome.
Us lunatics on Linux and/or ActivityPub prefer an independent option.
One thing, Edge wasn't reskinned Internet Explorer. It had a new compliant engine called EdgeHTML and not Trident.
Edge is tempting to try, and I specifically love its pdf markup capabilities. Much more intuitive than Firefox. But I don't trust Microsoft with my browsing data
I use Waterfox also