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Microsoft keeps shooting itself in the foot with Edge (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Microsoft keeps shooting itself in the foot with Edge::Microsoft Edge is full of fantastic features, but the tech company makes it hard to appreciate them.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 104 points 1 year ago (2 children)

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

also ublock origin

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] TurboLag@lemmings.world 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now, Google is bringing in Manifest V3, a new version of Chromium.

If this is the level of their understanding, it's hard to trust anything this outlet publishes.

[–] red@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago

The whole "article" was downright crap.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Something went wrong. Please disable your blocker on XDA-Developers.com

Nope.

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 24 points 1 year ago

Bit alarmist no? Microsoft doesn't necessarily need to build on top of the latest chromium. They certainly have the resources to just fork chromium and keep that updated.
Not that I personally care, I just use Firefox

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Fuck em

Not reading this article

[–] Tick_Dracy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

For some time, Edge was my favourite browser, given that it has awesome features like sleeping tabs, vertical tabs and web select (this last one allowed you to select an html table and paste in excel). With the silent removal of web select, and adding more and more useless features, they just pushed me into Firefox.

[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's a genuine shame because Edge could very easily become the best browser on Windows if only MS played their cards right. Resource optimization of this browser is terrific and it leaves both Chrome and Firefox behind in terms of speed and snappiness. All MS needs to do is make it FOSS, strip down the unnecessary bloat and ensure firsthand content blocking support, and it will be straight-up unbeatable.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'll just keep using LibreWolf on Debian 12

[–] joeyv120@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

I've been a MS products fan since Windows Phone, Cortana, and OneNote stole my heart. I loved the great features that Windows 10 and Edge provided out-of-the box. Bing provided better results than Google for some time.

But Phone was never accepted by the market, and with it, Cortana faded away. OneNote hasn't kept up with the market, and they somehow broke the cursor on mobile. Sticky Notes lost compatibility with Dark Mode. They started pushing ads to Windows start menu, and embedded ads in Edge Collections.

Microsoft makes great software, then fuck it all up. Oh well, back to Linux.