What is your opinion on Microsoft Edge?

False_Christian

Right now I'm using CyberFox and it is wonderful. I'm willing to give Vivaldi a try but if I can't get extensions to download YouTube videos it will gather dust so to speak. Edge has no extension support, you can't download file to the location you want (in my case the desktop) and it can't even import favourites properly. It'll be a long time before I use that piece of malware.

aach1

I know this is an old thread but hey it's there so why start a new one. Edge has moved on a bit since these posts. Now has extensions (but not a huge number of them) and one or two nice features of its own (the ability to put tabs aside for later reading). Since without any add-ons it's still very quick to start up and shutdown, it's a really good "page reader". So although I use Vivaldi for almost everything (google apps etc.), I've left Edge as the default browser. Any time I pop up a page from (e.g.) twitter, it comes up quickly in Edge and doesn't clutter up my Vivaldi tabs.

Hadden89

It's ok, but nothing special. I consider chrome/edge in the same way.
No customization, no vertical tabs. Not my style of navigation at all :3
And I'm not a big fan of metro/modern apps so..

Ayespy

@axander Interesting. I find their UI possibly the worst, most unintuitive and opaque of all browsers. It is the chief reason why I avoid it like the plague. To each his own.

aach1

@Ayespy The user interface for Edge has about four things in it, besides the url bar and the page pane. There is limited scope for opacity there, and avoiding it like the plague would be effort poorly spent. As you say, to each their own - but you might want to give it another look. I'm a committed vivaldi user and I still have edge as my page reader.

Ayespy

@aach1 Every time my system rebels on me, I get to look at Edge. Have not found a single thing to recommend it yet. But thanks.

aach1

@Ayespy yer welcome...

Catweazle

Essential utility to be able to download Vivaldi

Ayespy

@Catweazle You may have something there...

aach1

@Catweazle haha but you fail the purity test. should be using chrome or firefox for that...

Catweazle

@aach1 said in What is your opinion on Microsoft Edge?:

@Catweazle haha but you fail the purity test. should be using chrome or firefox for that...

These also have to download first and for this Windows has this utility

LonM

One feature I really like (possibly the only one) is the quick "set these tabs aside" feature. It's somewhat like sessions, but easier to use as it creates what is effectively a temporary saved session.

ersi

@deyirn said in What is your opinion on Microsoft Edge?:

When Internet Explorer 1 was reworked from Spyglass Mosaic, it didn't have much features either, but it was gradually introduced to many features over the years, expect the same with Edge, nowadays if you want to make a new browser, you should first make it stable and then gradually add features and work out the problems they cause.
Extensions will supposedly come before the end of 2015, get your info updated, please, I don't use it right now, but when it has what I need, I won't be using any other browser.

Trying Edge out on Android in 2017. Still no features. I see no advantage for it over Chrome or any other browser, speed-wise or in terms of UI convenience. It even has no nostalgia value.

Komposten

I have a fairly weak tablet (CPU: Intel Atom x5-Z8550). My main browser on it is Edge (and sometimes Opera Neon), because the severe lack of features also means that it barely uses any resources. Even if it might be slow on high-end devices, it is definitely the fastest and most stable browser I've used on that tablet so far. Sure, it might not have support for extensions or many other features, but I don't need that stuff on that device.

That said, I would never use Edge as my main browser on a full-scale PC (desktop or laptop). There Vivaldi is my main browser precisely because of the large feature set and customisations the browser provides (while also being on par with others when it comes to speed and performance).

I still use IE and Edge occasionally, but that's only if I want to sign in to alternate accounts on websites without having to sign out first.

Caine

It's lack of support for non-windows OSes disqualifies it as a viable browser for me. I prefer my software to be cross-platform such that I do not have to learn different tools whenever I switch my environment.

Steffie

Edge? For some incomprehensible reason it won't install here...

Steffie

@quinca71 said in What is your opinion on Microsoft Edge?:

Do you swear the reason is really incomprehensible?

I concede that there is a very small possibility that i was being ironic...

Steffie

Actually to be slightly more serious, i have accidentally invoked Edge a few times now & then in my occasional launches of my Win10 VM. It continues to completely underwhelm me. I continue to see no reason to wish to use it.

stpvid1

even though most don't like "Edge" it does have some improvements that other browsers don't have right now, and it does use the "Chromium" engine too, HTH

LonM

@stpvid1 Edge doesn't use the chromium engine. It uses an engine that was forked from IE's engine. However, it does aim for feature parity with chromium's engine, like web extensions and ditching activeX