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Microsoft Edge Web Browser Coming to the Mac Over 15 Years After Internet Explorer for Mac
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I’ve not used it before. Despite my hate of windows I’m looking forward to trying it because I’ve only heard positive things about it.
I’m also going to have to use windows 10 too as I’ve heard that it’s much improved.
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With the Apple TV I can use my iPhone or iPad to type in things which is infinitely better than using the supplied remotes.
I’d imagine a pc connected to the TV to be just as capable as a Mac connected to a tv.
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Is that for sure? From what I understand, Safari is the only browser on Mac OS that can show Netflix in HD and that's by design. Will Apple enable it?
I'm with you about keychain however. It's so useful. Linking passwords and bookmarks to the phone plus the fact that Safaris is at least good enough 99% of the time, also fairly light on battery life.
I will give it a try for sure but I doubt very much it'll do anything extra I need.
I just leave the link here of this nice project:
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans integration with Google. It also features some tweaks to enhance privacy, control, and transparency (almost all of which require manual activation or enabling).
ungoogled-chromium retains the default Chromium experience as closely as possible. Unlike other Chromium forks that have their own visions of a web browser, ungoogled-chromium is essentially a drop-in replacement for Chromium.
ungoogled-chromium retains the default Chromium experience as closely as possible. Unlike other Chromium forks that have their own visions of a web browser, ungoogled-chromium is essentially a drop-in replacement for Chromium.
Now we need Safari on Windoze, and...happy New 2019, everyone! Or is it 2009?
There was. This article is regurgitating the same thing from a different angle. Basically MS might keep the Edge name, but will run Chromium under the hood. I think it's kind of silly and redundant at this point. Chrome and Safari are more than enough. Having said that, Safari is becoming a bit of an IE6. Late with implementing newer web standards and APIs that other browsers have supported for over a year or even two. It's basically making web developers' lives harder than it needs to be.
Err, no this part is open source and doesn't (presumably) include any of the tracking code Google uses.
People who are making fun of Edge don't realise what they are missing. Chrome consumes more memory than Edge. Chrome's fonts look jagged and awful on a 1440P monitor. Here is the proof
Open the image in a new tab and see how bad the Chrome font is as it can't utilise the native Windows font smoothing.Scrolling is horrible on it and the issue is aggravated on a 144hz monitor. I use Edge daily and the current versions blow the doors off Chrome.
Open the image in a new tab and see how bad the Chrome font is as it can't utilise the native Windows font smoothing.Scrolling is horrible on it and the issue is aggravated on a 144hz monitor. I use Edge daily and the current versions blow the doors off Chrome.
People who are making fun of Edge don't realise what they are missing. Chrome consumes more memory than Edge. Chrome's fonts look jagged and awful on a 1440P monitor. Here is the proof
Open the image in a new tab and see how bad the Chrome font is as it can't utilise the native Windows font smoothing.Scrolling is horrible on it and the issue is aggravated on a 144hz monitor. I use Edge daily and the current versions blow the doors off Chrome.
Edge is great until you run into a site that doesn’t work well with it. Also, I would think that Microsoft would fix the font issue and the scrolling issue before they move over to Blink.
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Anyone who uses m$ kind of lets everyone know to not take them seriously.
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It has a 4.3% market share, so actually nobody is using it besides some folks that will use any preinstalled browser.
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People who are making fun of Edge don't realise what they are missing. Chrome consumes more memory than Edge. Chrome's fonts look jagged and awful on a 1440P monitor. Here is the proof
Open the image in a new tab and see how bad the Chrome font is as it can't utilise the native Windows font smoothing.Scrolling is horrible on it and the issue is aggravated on a 144hz monitor. I use Edge daily and the current versions blow the doors off Chrome.
Just compared the fonts between Safari and Chrome, not seeing any difference here.
No thanks to Microsoft. I'm in the process now of transferring all my documents from Microsoft Office to iWork now. Microsoft Office takes almost 45 seconds to load on my Mac. After I change all my documents to iWork, I'm uninstalling Microsoft Office. ALL of Microsoft products Stay Off My Mac!
Yes, the issue was Edge. ICloud is horrible on Edge. Totally unusable. I also found that Edge needed to reload websites twice before they would render properly. Just a bad experience, overall.
In fact, there are rumors that the next major revision to Edge on Windows 10 will go from Microsoft's own page layout engine to the Blink page layout engine used by Google Chrome. This is why Edge for MacOS is essentially a Microsoft "wrapper" around the Blink platform.
Apparently that’s what’s happening. Moving forward, Edge will apparently support regular Chrome plug-ins, which is kind of cool.
Edge has done well in my personal testing, and I consider it a worthy and welcome replacement for Internet Explorer. The trouble is that so many companies are wary of adopting it, or just so slow in the process that it'll be years before they move from IE to Edge corporate-wide.
People who are making fun of Edge don't realise what they are missing. Chrome consumes more memory than Edge. Chrome's fonts look jagged and awful on a 1440P monitor. Here is the proof
Open the image in a new tab and see how bad the Chrome font is as it can't utilise the native Windows font smoothing.Scrolling is horrible on it and the issue is aggravated on a 144hz monitor. I use Edge daily and the current versions blow the doors off Chrome.
you need to update your chrome. it's a few versions out of date and has better fonts, and some tweaks to the UI. you look like you're on a version that's about 6-8mths out of date