Probably a godsend if you're a web dev. No more rebooting or running a second PC/VM for compatibility checking.
The only possible use case I can think of, but I'd still want to restrict the thing to its own VM out of paranoia.
It has a slightly better privacy policy compared to google chrome while fully supporting progressive web apps on Linux. Edge is also very much so more efficient in terms of system resource utilization. It also has high quality native built in translation which I need. All of this means I use Edge as my PWA browser.
Chromium lacks native translation support. Firefox PWA support is not good. Edge was the least bad option for me. 🤷♀️
How is edge more efficient? It's literally chromium
Chrome is basically Chromium+bloat so this doesn't surprise me.
And Edge is chromium + Microsoft Bloat.
One could argue using it on Windows means only allowing M$ to spy on you, theoretically. Though I would not be surprised if M$ uses a custom version of Chromium including Google trackers, so the opposite of degoogled chromium.
With the same amount of tabs with the same sites Edge uses fewer resources. I think Microsoft did some fine tuning or something. It’s not just just me that sees this either.
This is a 2 year old link but it shows the difference. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/chrome-firefox-edge-ram-comparison
Brave has PWAs, but I'm not sure about the translation support
True. But brave is run by a crypto advertising company. Their business model is advertising and crypto tokens. I trust crypto bros less than I trust Microsoft.
In my opinion no proprietary browser is worth using.
Chrome isn't better in any way than Edge, as both don't respect it's users privacy and decisions (dark patterns, etc).
I agree.
If a browser ain't open source, I ain't gonna use it and neither should anyone else.
I use Edge on Linux as my user agent in Firefox on Windows just so I can give some engineers a laugh.
I set it up with my work profile for Office 365 stuff.
I've given up the hope that Office will ever come to Linux, so instead I'm just trying to use the web version more.
I don't use it as its proprietary and spyware
Nah it's proprietary garbage. If it weren't proprietary it would be an option (although in that case a "deMicrosofted" version would be better). there are free Chromium browsers and free browsers that aren't chromium, this one offers nothing of interest.
Yo I'll install this bs right now if it allows me to watch Netflix into such in 4k. Anyone tried that?
Edit: Nope that's not a thing
FUCK NETFLIX DISNEY AMAZON AND ALL THE OTHERS
Set sail, matey. The actors are on strike anyway. You can afford to hate a corporation or two.
No... I don't want to use a browser made by Microsoft. They will turn it to shit as soon as they can get away with it, and I'm happy with Firefox.
I have it on Steam Deck since it can be launched with a CLI argument to force a 1280x800 window.
Vivaldi pretends to be Edge when visiting Bing to unlock GPT-4, and prefer that to Edge on my other devices. (Secondary to Firefox, ofc)
Installed to use bingGpt. Never use it. But somethis it get some updates.
I use it on snap!
(J/k, I don't)
I currently use Edge for mostly one thing, its "Read aloud" feature.
Because you can use some of the Azure neural voices its currently the best, free, easily accessible text-to-speech available.
It can even do PDFs quite well. Really helps when I'm too unable to focus for reading long texts but can still listen well enough (ADHD).
I use it for my university email, which is an outlook account. Edge is the only browser that doesn't constantly log me out.
I run an awful lot of MS email for a lot of customers. My own company (literally mine) uses Exchange on prem and I pass all access through HA Proxy. My customers mostly use M365 but one is still on GroupWise (I have known GroupWise for roughly 25 years)
I've seen browsers come and go. My first one was telnet on a VAX through a X.25 PAD and a string of connections via the US (I'm UK) to CERN. First graphical browser was Mosaic on Win 95. I think Mosaic became Internet Explorer - MS don't really innovate - they buy it.
Edge is basically Chromium with knobs on. Chromium is Chrome with knobs removed (sort of!) I can exclusively reveal that Firefox works fine with all version of OWA and Exchange on-line, because that is what I personally use and so do many of my staff and customers.
If you have snags with your uni email then there is something specific there and not your browser choice. Edge doesn't do anything special for OWA it's just yet another Google browser.
I'll say this, I never used edge before, but it's comparable with a bunch of my work sites so I was kind of forced into using it. It's actually pretty great. Better overall than stock chrome, though I prefer brave or Firefox for non work related stuff.
Once I started using Edge, I was surprised by how well it worked.
If your org uses any of the Microsoft suite apps Edge is just better. It sucks that Microsoft is allowed to do this
I actually trust Microsoft far more than I trust Google. I use Outlook as my main email provider and Edge for when I need something that rejects Firefox.
Besides trust, Edge just feels snappier on Linux than Chrome. Chrome is so bloaty theses days.
Yes, because I am forced to use M$ Teams.
and it doesn't work in firefox
dies of cringe
How most comments are either "I use X anyways" or "Edge seems to be a decent browser"
It is not. Has no tracking protection at all and itself tracks you a hell lot.
Its just a browser, no need to be tracked, for what in reverse? The same with Chrome, I dont get it?
Here is some actual MITM traffic analysis. Use Firefox Translate to translate.
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/microsoft-edge-datensendeverhalten-desktop-version-browser-check-teil4/
It has a really good implementation of vertical tabs. Vivaldi and Firefox are somewhat close, but they're not nearly as polished.
Yes. I'm mostly developing a website, and testing on another browser is necessary every now and then. But that is my only use reason.
My main browser used to be firefox till tw9 weeks qgo, but it started to be buggy so it's LibreWolf now.
I can't really blame people for using Edge since I using VSCode daily 😞
I think of myself as a Firefox user but I probably use Edge on Linux more than any other browser.
It runs the video conferencing apps I need to use better than anything else. Firefox does not work at all with some of them.
Obviously, it works well with Outlook and Office 365. I use a number of LMS systems and they all work well with it as well.
Once you start using it, it is just a great browser though honestly. Before I know it, I have opened a bunch of tabs in Edge and there is no reason to open anything else.
I use edge on Ubuntu via the snap.
It lets me use a very specific website that doesn't work in Firefox.
It also lets me play Xbox cloud games on Linux.
Otherwise it's Firefox soon the way.
I use Edge daily--trying to use mostly non-proprietary software, but when I need to annotate a PDF, Edge just works. It's no drawboard PDF, but it's free and runs on Linux!
I use it as the only browser for work. I don't have choices, because Teams and Outlook with all its' functionality works well only in their own browser, edge...
I even write some userscript to improve it because it's broken.. :/
As a browser it’s fine, but Microsoft asking me to use it every 0.001 seconds really turns me off it.
Yep, I use for Xbox cloud gaming on steam deck.
I am not judging anyone who uses Edge here, I can understnad the appeal of it. I just am sad that Linux doesn't have Microsoft like feature that there isn't a great alternative for Google + Bard, Microsoft GPT.
I want everything FOSS, but yeah, I will sleep now. I am too old for the new gen.
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