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Microsoft Edge Browser Now Available With Native Support for M1 Macs

xnsys said:
Does anybody actually use anything apart from Safari? I personally see no reason not to as it works fine for me, and I would personally trust Apple more than Google and Microsoft.
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Yes? I swear by Microsoft Edge. It is the only browser I use. Even the version of the browser im running via Rosetta 2 works with no issues.

For me, if a browser doesn't have native casting support, it's an automatic no-go. I also love the ability to create as many electron-based webapps as I want. It lets me have my own little webapp for gmail, google calendar, Netflix, etc that keeps my browser less cluttered and lets me focus on one thing at a time with no distractions.

Safari has extremely poor extension support and as other's have mentioned, it works kinda weird on certain websites. If I could cast from Safari and it had the same extension support as chromium browsers, I'd use Safari. Firefox is a very, very unpolished app on the Mac, its interface drives me nuts and it's noticeably slower compared to Safari and Edge. It also has very middle-of-the-road extension support and its mobile app is ass. Edge is so much more efficient than chrome and has slightly better privacy.

My only complaint about Edge on Mac is having to use Microsoft's autoupdater app. But I have to use that app for Microsoft Office 365 anyways so it's not a huge deal.
 
wbeasley said:
so if it is basically Chrome in a skin why bother?
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It isn't chrome in a skin. It uses the same platform (Chromium) that chrome uses but Microsoft has stripped away the bloat that chrome has that allows Edge to run with the same speed and functionality but much more efficiently than Chrome. It is clear from your comments that you haven't actually used the browser and are just talking about how ****** IE and Edge was prior to it being rebuilt under the chromium platform
 
BuffaloTF said:
Let's see...

Faster
Uses far less memory with all the same tabs and extensions enabled (around 1/3 the total Chrome uses)
They stripped out all of Google's tracking services, using strictly the rendering engine
To that previous point, there's far more Privacy settings that are very easy to find, like Brave, to give more granular control
Has PlayReady DRM in addition to WideVine, so you can use it for more media sites
Tracking Prevention (like Safari) by default
And for those in an older Enterprise Corpo world... IE mode
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Why not just use Brave, its open source=more privacy friendly, has built in blocker for ads and you support another competitor instead of giving Microsoft the full control. They already control 85% OS market, Office Suite, global email provider, cloud services, data center host. Lets not create our own monster.
 
silent angel123 said:
It isn't chrome in a skin. It uses the same platform (Chromium) that chrome uses but Microsoft has stripped away the bloat that chrome has that allows Edge to run with the same speed and functionality but much more efficiently than Chrome. It is clear from your comments that you haven't actually used the browser and are just talking about how ****** IE and Edge was prior to it being rebuilt under the chromium platform
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Why does Google insist on keeping the bloat if they can make a perfectly fine browser like Edge without the bloat?
Why Microsoft insist on having its own browser?
 
MacBH928 said:
Why not just use Brave, its open source=more privacy friendly, has built in blocker for ads and you support another competitor instead of giving Microsoft the full control. They already control 85% OS market, Office Suite, global email provider, cloud services, data center host. Lets not create our own monster.
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Because they couldn’t strip all the Google trackers out, which Microsoft did.
 
BuffaloTF said:
To which you just turn on Tracking Prevention. Problem = solved.

And given the two options in any event... why wouldn’t you pick the lesser of the evils?
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The lesser evil is Brave that is completely open source and has no intention to track you via their advertising program like Microsoft and Google. You also have Firefox but I assume you do not like that.
 
MacBH928 said:
The lesser evil is Brave that is completely open source and has no intention to track you via their advertising program like Microsoft and Google. You also have Firefox but I assume you do not like that.
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....... Edge is open source, too......
 
BuffaloTF said:
....... Edge is open source, too......
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its not, its based on Chromium which is open source then they add to it its own "secret code" and release it to the public and Google release it as Chrome and Microsoft release it as Edge
 
MacBH928 said:
its not, its based on Chromium which is open source then they add to it its own "secret code" and release it to the public and Google release it as Chrome and Microsoft release it as Edge
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...and Android isn't open source either, yet the common tongue for it is to call it open source...

They contributed back into Chromium with what they've done. Brave can take their base contribution that strips out Google, something they've not been able to do. Not even their Tor tab meets Tor standards.
 
MacBH928 said:
its not, its based on Chromium which is open source then they add to it its own "secret code" and release it to the public and Google release it as Chrome and Microsoft release it as Edge
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Brave is grade A trash and I would much rather use google chrome over that crap

If you think Brave is privacy focused, you are sorely mistaken


Microsoft Edge is the best browser for the Mac and I stand by it.
 
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