What is your opinion on Microsoft Edge?

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

stpvid1

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

@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

Yet its user agent says, Chrome 58, why? I also looked at Microsofts Developer page to read about its rendering engine and it seems to have many different components from open source and others in it even their own.

LonM

@stpvid1 Most browsers will display user agents that compound other browsers. You'll notice it even mentions Mozilla/5.0.

This is because since the days of old, web servers have engaged in the bad practice of sniffing user agents and acting inappropriately, so everyone just puts a load of info to describe how compatible their browser is.

I assume by Chrome/58, that was the latest chrome at the last time a major version of Edge was shipped.