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Current-era Microsoft continuing to push the boundaries of consent.

Microsoft Edge is a good browser but for some reason Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down everyone’s throat and make it more difficult to use rivals like Chrome or Firefox. Microsoft has now started notifying IT admins that it will force Outlook and Teams to ignore the default web browser on Windows and open links in Microsoft Edge instead.

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[-] melon_lord@lemmy.ml 85 points 1 year ago

I've been using edge since the first chromium beta. I'm considering moving to firefox just out of spite.

[-] mycelium_underground@lemmy.ml 68 points 1 year ago

Firefox is great! I have never been to a website where it doesn't work, and the future of the internet relies on people ditching chrome based browsers (don't kid yourself, chromium = supporting chrome and monopolistic companies)

[-] LightProtector@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Sadly haven’t had the same experience. There are some websites that are broken and Canvas particularly didn’t play videos well on Firefox. Also, it has been really laggy for me lately and watching videos has been laggy. There are also no tab sorting options. I love Firefox and still use it, but it’s not all great.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

For me the worst part is sites with crappy JavaScript not working in it. It's like they didn't even test it in Firefox. Our time tracking and accrual systems at work and my bank system don't operate particularly well in Firefox. Whenever people do refreshes on websites it's kind of hit or miss whether they actually work out of the box.

I've converted over to mainly running Brave because It's more aggressive about blocking tracking while still remaining almost completely chrome compatible.

I generally still keep a Firefox browser window open but it's mainly to play YouTube videos.

When Microsoft offered GPT to edge users I flipped over and started using that for a while. I loaded it down with all my normal Chrome plugins. For me it's faster unless ram heavy than Firefox, Chrome, or Brave, I just don't trust openly giving all of my browsing data to Microsoft.

[-] dan@upvote.au 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me the worst part is sites with crappy JavaScript not working in it. It's like they didn't even test it in Firefox.

A major issue now is that some sites actually unknowingly rely on bugs in Chrome, so they don't work properly in other browsers that don't have the same bugs. Mozilla do ship some workarounds with Firefox (where it detects sites that rely on bugs and patches them to work properly) but obviously they can't test everything.

[-] sourweasel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I love Firefox, but had to go to Edge due to tab groupings. How Firefox doesn’t have this yet boggles my mind. The day I see they have groups, I’ll be all over it again.

[-] LightProtector@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

On the Mozilla feature request page, it is the highest voted post and is currently being “investigated” by the team. But it’s been like that for a while, so I stopped holding my breath. It will come one day (hopefully) considering how much demand there is for it.

[-] Interstellar_1@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What so you mean by "tab sorting options"?

[-] LightProtector@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Chromium has tab groups where you can easily add or remove tabs from a group. It makes it easy to drag it out to a different window, bring it into an existing window, and the groups are collapsible.

I usually have a lot of forums open, work tabs, and just other stuff. Right now, my solution is dealing with it/creating separate windows, but it gets messy really fast when you have 4-6 different windows. It becomes a game of which one has the tab I’m looking for.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I use an add-on called tab groups for organizing tabs.

[-] LightProtector@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve tried them all, but I really prefer how Chromium handles it.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 1 year ago

It's much better. I don't miss Chrome at all. Also f Google.

[-] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

For me what did my migration was the frequent crashes and the adding of bloat

[-] PolarBone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve always rotated between edge and Firefox. Some things I like better about each. Firefox usually wins out for me when stuff like this keeps happening haha

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