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Don't Know Why

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I don't know why (don't have a real reason) but I have momentarily switched to Microsoft Edge from Firefox.

Are any of you using Microsoft Edge and if so have your experiences been good or not so good.
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I have used Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Google Chrome browsers over the years (occasionally Safari when I am on a Mac). Each have pluses and minuses. I liked Edge and used it for several years, but towards the end I had some issues using it with specific websites so I switched back to Chrome. Microsoft abandoned their internal browser development; I think like 2 years ago. Since then, Edge has been based on a Chrome browser engine with essentially a Microsoft "skin" on top of it. So, if you are using Edge today it is really a Chrome browser. So, for PC (Windows) use, it really is down to just two major browsers now (Chrome an Firefox). There are some fringe browsers out there, but I am not listing them here...bulk of the market are with these two browsers on Windows.
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Hate Edge. Had to use all of these in the past for work. In the long run, IE and Chrome were the best, but everyone always did have and still does have annoying faults. Mentioned right above, the browser industry is shaking out and it's really down to Chrome and Firefox. Customers have their preferences, but in the end the browser doesn't drive hardware and software sales significantly.
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The "Standard" browser for work is Edge. I really don't have any issues with it and it has a fairly clean interface. As noted above it is basically Chrome with a different skin. I need to use Chrome to connect to SAP because there are some rendering issues with Edge. For our software testing tool, only Explorer works because it extensively uses activeX controls.

At home, (which is now 3 feet to the left of work and I love the commute) I have Safari, Firefox, Chrome and Edge all installed on my mac for web development testing.

The net result is that all of them work 99% of the time with nearly all of the sites I need to get to, but none of them can be used for 100% of my work.
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Don't like Edge. Because of my work in the past I had to use Internet Exploiter most of the time, and then increasing use of Chrome, which I use now. Chrome. I had to deal with compatibility issues with most of the browsers out there from time to time, but most of the business world did not switch to Edge. That was the state of things 3 years ago when I retired, perhaps the world has changed, but I think Chrome is currently the browser of record, the one that will have the greatest compatibility among web based apps. That doesn't make it the best browser, just the safe approach for developers.
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Ya gots something against Mozilla(Firefox)?
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Pretty sure that was a spammer that restarted this old thread and Edge is NOT a "new" browser. Anyway, you should know that MS abandoned their Edge browser and it is now an open sourced version of Chrome. In other words, the browser guts are Chrome and Edge is simply a graphical wrapper around that internal core. It was definitely an improvement when MS dropped their Edge development four years ago and replaced it with Chrome.

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RFGuy wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 1:45 pm Pretty sure that was a spammer that restarted this old thread and Edge is NOT a "new" browser. Anyway, you should know that MS abandoned their Edge browser and it is now an open sourced version of Chrome. In other words, the browser guts are Chrome and Edge is simply a graphical wrapper around that internal core. It was definitely an improvement when MS dropped their Edge development four years ago and replaced it with Chrome.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-get- ... e-chromium
Now if µsoft would just do the same with Linux!
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I would still be using 98 if I could , It didnt have a bunch of stuff in it that to me is useless .
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Or gets in the way! Or adds additional clicking.
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